Daily Telescope: Zooming in on one of the most iconic night sky sights
Enlarge / Messier 45 as seen from Texas. (credit: Jeff Cohen)
Welcome to the Daily Telescope. There is a little too much darkness in this world and not enough light; a little too much pseudoscience and not enough science. We'll let other publications offer you a daily horoscope. At Ars Technica, we're going to take a different route, finding inspiration from very real images of a universe that is filled with stars and wonder.
Good morning. It is November 9, and today's photograph brings the Pleiades into focus.
This bright, open cluster of stars is known by several names. Sometimes it is the Seven Sisters, sometimes Pleiades, and in Japan it is known as the Subaru cluster-the automaker actually took its name from the astronomical object, reflecting the joining of five companies. The company's logo mimics the star cluster.