The Pleiades, also known as The Seven Sisters, is an asterism and an open star cluster containing middle-aged, hot B-type stars in the north-west of the constellation Taurus. Computer simulations have shown that the Pleiades were probably formed from a compact configuration that resembled the Orion Nebula. Astronomers estimate that the cluster will survive for about another 250 million years, after which it will disperse due to gravitational interactions with its galactic neighborhood.
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