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SEVEN SISTERS
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Known commonly as the "Seven Sisters", the Pleiades is a star cluster that shimmers magnificently on winter evenings, and at dawn on late summer mornings.  This cluster, at a distance of more than 400 light years, is believed to be a rather young stellar groupingperhaps only about 50 million years old.  In other words, the dinosaurs would never have witnessed such a scene.

 

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