NASA’s TESS Spacecraft Triples Size of Pleiades Star Cluster - NASA Science

NASA’s TESS Spacecraft Triples Size of Pleiades Star Cluster - NASA Science

4 min readNASA’s TESS Spacecraft Triples Size of Pleiades Star Cluster These young, hot blue stars are members of the Pleiades open star cluster and resides about 430 light-years away in the northern constellation Taurus. The brightest stars are visible to the unaided eye during evenings from October to April. A new study finds the cluster to be triple the size previously thought — and shows that its stars are scattered across the night sky. The…