Star fields and chance patterns that look like clusters in the sky but are not true bound clusters, such as a dense stellar region of the Milky Way seen along our line of sight or a pattern of stars grouped by the eye. An object belongs here when its cited article calls it an asterism or a star cloud. Members are placed here from their own cited Wikipedia articles, each with a verbatim supporting quotation, so a reader can check why an entry sits in this group. The grouping forms part of the browse path for this section of the atlas.
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Pleiades (Wikipedia)
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The Pleiades ( PLEE-ə-deez, PLAY-, PLY-), also known as Seven Sisters and Messier 45 (M45), is an asterism of an open star cluster containing young B-type stars in the northwest of the constellation Taurus.
Small Sagittarius Star Cloud (Wikipedia)
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The Small Sagittarius Star Cloud (also known as Messier 24 and IC 4715) is a star cloud in the constellation of Sagittarius approximately 600 light years wide, which was catalogued by Charles Messier in 1764.
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