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Pleiades

Pleiades
The Pleiades is a group of stars in the constellation Taurus. Between seven and twelve stars are visible with the unaided eye, but the cluster actually contains hundreds of stars.
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Star (astronomy); Pleiades (astronomy); Open Cluster
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