The Pleiades or Seven Sisters, also known as M45, is one of the most iconic open clusters in the night sky. Found northwest of Orion's Belt (up and right as seen from the UK), the Pleiades are around 444 lightyears distant or approximately three times further away than the more spread-out form of the V-shaped Hyades open cluster. The relative compactness of the Pleiades is a result of it being both a young cluster and further away than the Hyades. Being a young cluster, the
