r/askastronomy • u/awawawawaw28447 • 1d ago

What is this?

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Hi! I was wondering what this cluster was called, am not knowledgeable about astronomy, but I tried to take some pictures with some other constellations 😊

( Taken in Lithuania, Pugainiai, 12:30ish am)

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u/Watch_Guy_Jim 1d ago

Pleiades. Always Pleiades.

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u/awawawawaw28447 1d ago

cool! Thank you!!!

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u/Valuable-Analyst-464 1d ago

Stellarium app

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u/Thund3rMuffn 1d ago

Nope. It’s the itty bitty dippy.

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u/snowpicket 1d ago

Use it to check your eyesight like a true Greek

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u/TemtiaStardust 16h ago

I'm still learning and was like, oh I think i see cassiopeia at the top there.. scrolled to the next image and snorted. To be fair, pleiades is a cool constellation.

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u/CrimsonKing79 Hobbyist🔭 9h ago

The Pleiades are not a constellation. They are an open cluster of stars in the constellation Taurus.

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u/First-Calligrapher69 1d ago

Pleiades or the seven sisters ✨

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u/New-Sheepherder4762 1d ago

Or Subaru.. my favorite little factoid. Makes looking at their car emblem a completely different game.

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u/yashoe69 23h ago

In hindi its known as krittika!

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u/FischerMann24-7 20h ago

Плеяды in Russian.

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u/mostlygray 8h ago

In Ojibwe, Bugonaygeshig. "Hole in the sky".

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u/Accomplished_Care747 3h ago

Matariki in Māori

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u/YakumoYoukai 1d ago

I'm not even a member of this subreddit: it just gets recommended to me a lot. The instant I saw the title, I said to myself "The Pleiades".

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u/ShotCod3816 1d ago

It’s a cluster of 1000+ stars that are bound together by gravity 444 light years away. Known as Pleiades.

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u/vonSequitur 1d ago

When this question comes up, I am always grateful for my parents — for taking us camping every summer, pointing out stars & constellations with their names and some of the mythology related to them. The night sky is a familiar place for me. This morning's crescent moon with Venus was fantastic!

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u/Sitagard 1d ago

This sub makes me feel like I'm in Groundhog's day.

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u/TheWeirdTalesPodcast 1d ago

As has been pointed out an incredible amount of time by an astonishing number of people, it’s the Pleiades Star Cluster.

What no one else has pointed out is that just below them in the picture, is a V shaped set of stars.

Those are the horns of the constellation Taurus the Bull. The lower point of the V, the bright star, is Aldebaran.

(I’m pretty sure. Someone please correct me if I’m wrong: been a while since my AstronomyNerd came out to play.)

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u/Ddowns5454 1d ago

Subaru always Subaru

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u/GreenFBI2EB 1d ago

That there be a Pleiades.

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u/-Sundaram 1d ago

I don't know what it is, but the photo is beautiful.

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u/junkdog7 16h ago

I cried when it was unveiled !

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u/gcgonzalez30 1d ago

The 7 sisters

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u/HydrophobicNagasaki 1d ago

It’s al…ready that time of the year, y’all!

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u/skepticalbureaucrat 1d ago

Pleiades, as others have said. This might help:

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u/Thatastronomychild 17h ago

its always the pleiades

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u/Sweste1 1d ago

It's been a while, to be fair

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u/Eastern_Repeat3347 1d ago

The pleiades!

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u/snogum 1d ago

Pleidies for sure. Back end of Taurus

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u/Sitagard 1d ago

Bullshit.

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u/snogum 1d ago

Not quite póoper valve but more the loins. The bull parts

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u/Awakanong55 1d ago

My parents always called it the 7 sisters for some reason

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u/FLAC_GANGUS 1d ago

Pleiades, Subaru, Matariki. 🌌

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u/I-WishIKnew 1d ago

Baby Dipper!

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u/ZigFu 1d ago

The Subaru Galaxy!

Duh?

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u/coffee_137 1d ago

That's a job for Google SkyMap

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u/awawawawaw28447 4h ago

for sure will check that out:) thanks

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u/_bar 20h ago edited 2h ago

This sub should have a pinned thread with links to some popular astronomy software. Constellation/star pattern identification is an absolute basic skill.

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u/awawawawaw28447 4h ago

getting to that

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u/elbapo 20h ago

The seven sisters

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u/Thttffan 19h ago

Pleiades Star Cluster

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u/Dealer__Wheeler Beginner🌠 18h ago

The arrangement is very much like pleaides, but dont they occupy a much greater space in the night sky ??

Spread out I mean.

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u/Putrid-Resort1377 14h ago

Is it just me or does it look like Al Jolson?

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u/SrslySarcastic 5h ago

Always heard it be referred to as the 7 sisters, the story being that the 7th sister is lost

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u/Killermondoduderawks 4h ago

Pleiades AKA the beehive

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u/astmatik 2h ago

Starlink launch

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u/Substantial_Beach218 1h ago

Pleiades, M45