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Star cluster

The Pleiades

A bright open star cluster of hot young stars, easily visible to the naked eye.

Type
Star cluster
Domain
Scientific connections
Connections
4

NASA/JPL-Caltech/UCLA · NASA media (public domain)

Pink Pleiades
Pink Pleiades · NASA/JPL-Caltech

Experience system V6

Star cluster scientific profile

A graph-grounded scientific layout that adapts to available evidence, imagery, relations, and source coverage.

Evidence graphScientific mapOriginal SVGSource trail
  1. 01

    Observe

    NASA imagery anchors the visual reading with licensed source metadata.

  2. 02

    Measure

    Measurement panels use graph coverage, catalog identifiers, and source availability without inventing values.

  3. 03

    Locate

    Part of The Milky Way.

  4. 04

    Connect

    4 graph relations shape the knowledge viewport.

Object type
Star cluster
Graph relations
4
Verified sources
2
Image records
4
Domain
Scientific connections
Status
Graph entity

Scientific map

Atlas context

The Pleiadescoordinate fields shown only when available
  • Part of

    The Milky Way

  • Associated with

    Stellar Populations & Clusters

  • Associated with

    Open Cluster

  • Associated with

    Reflection Nebula

Original SVG diagram

Deep-sky morphology

Galaxy-scale viewBulge / nucleusDisk or stellar haloMorphology comes from observationStar cluster
Object class
Star cluster
Catalog numbers
Not recorded
Image records
4
Graph relations
4
Open ClusterReflection NebulaStellar Populatio...The Milky WayThe PleiadesStar cluster

Visual knowledge graph

Relationships, not isolated facts

This viewport is generated from the Asteria knowledge graph. Science, culture, and interpretive links remain separated by domain so visual context never changes the evidentiary meaning of a relation.

Image provenance

Photography as evidence

4 cleared visual records
Star Cluster Overshadowed by Infrared Objects

Star Cluster Overshadowed by Infrared Objects

NASA/JPL-Caltech/UCLA · NASA media (public domain)

Pink Pleiades

Pink Pleiades

NASA/JPL-Caltech · NASA media (public domain)

The Seven Sisters Pose for Spitzer

The Seven Sisters Pose for Spitzer

NASA/JPL-Caltech · NASA media (public domain)

Seven Sisters Get WISE

Seven Sisters Get WISE

NASA/JPL-Caltech/UCLA · NASA media (public domain)

Continue the atlas

Curated next objects

galaxy

The Milky Way

The barred spiral galaxy that contains the Solar System, the Sun, and all stars visible to the naked eye.

stellar physics concept

Stellar Populations & Clusters

Stars fall into broad populations: metal-rich Population I stars in the disc, like the Sun; old, metal-poor Population II stars in the halo and globular clusters; and a hypothesised first generation of metal-free Population III stars, not yet directly observed. Star clusters — young open clusters and ancient globulars — are coeval populations that serve as the great testing grounds of stellar-evolution theory.

astrophysical object class

Open Cluster

A loose, irregular group of a few dozen to a few thousand stars born together from the same molecular cloud, found in the disk of the Galaxy. Their stars share an age and composition, making open clusters key laboratories for stellar evolution; because they are only weakly bound, they gradually disperse over hundreds of millions of years.

astrophysical object class

Reflection Nebula

A cloud of interstellar dust that shines not by its own emission but by scattering the light of nearby stars. Because fine dust scatters blue light most efficiently, reflection nebulae typically appear blue — as in the wisps of nebulosity draped around the Pleiades.

star cluster

Omega Centauri

The brightest and most massive globular cluster orbiting the Milky Way.

astrophysical object class

Globular Cluster

A dense, roughly spherical swarm of tens of thousands to millions of very old stars, tightly bound by gravity and orbiting in the halo of a galaxy. Globular clusters are among the oldest structures in the Universe, and their tightly packed, coeval stars make them benchmarks for stellar ages and the early history of the Galaxy.

Observation

How this was captured

Source
NASA
Observation date
2011-05-23

Gallery

The Seven Sisters Pose for Spitzer

The Seven Sisters, also known as the Pleiades star cluster, seem to float on a bed of feathers in a new infrared image from NASA Spitzer Space Telescope.

2007

NASA/JPL-Caltech · NASA media (public domain)

Source archive ↗

Data

Scientific data & provenance

Data & provenance

Stable ID
star_cluster:pleiades
Type
Star cluster
Domain
Scientific connections
Relationships
4
Graph version
1.0.0

Dataset membership

Open data

In the graph export: graph.json · graph.jsonld

Planned API: GET /api/v0/entities/star_cluster:pleiades

Scientific quality

Substantial
Unreviewed2 sourcesv1.0.0

4 of 6 applicable dimensions complete

Description
Complete
Source coverage
Complete
Relationship coverage
Complete
Review coverage
None
Citation coverage
None
Image coverage
Complete
Timeline coverage
Not applicable

Scientific entity. Dimensions that cannot apply to this object are excluded rather than counted as gaps. See the evidence framework and authority dashboard.

Scientific citations

1

Real, source-backed references — primary papers first, then datasets and institutional sources. Formatted through the citation engine; nothing is fabricated.

  • Image archiveThe Pleiades (M45) — HubbleSite / STScI

    Space Telescope Science Institute

    Cite (APA / BibTeX)
    Space Telescope Science Institute (n.d.). The Pleiades (M45) — HubbleSite / STScI. Space Telescope Science Institute. https://www.stsci.edu/

@misc{cite:stsci-star_cluster-pleiades,
  title        = {The Pleiades (M45) — HubbleSite / STScI},
  organization = {Space Telescope Science Institute},
  year         = {n.d.},
  url          = {https://www.stsci.edu/},
  note         = {STScI imagery and science for The Pleiades (M45).}
}

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Sources & references

The primary and reference sources this topic draws on.

  • NASANational Aeronautics and Space Administration

    Mission data, planetary science, space telescopes, and public-domain imagery.

    Most NASA-produced imagery is in the public domain; individual items are checked for usage terms before publication.

  • ESAEuropean Space Agency

    European missions, observatories, and space science imagery.