Today's #APOD is a #stunning #picture of M45 / the #Pleaides / the 7 sisters. We use to see M45 with the bright stars dominating the #photography, but this #image is so #sharp that the #stars are small and point-like, which highlight the dust cloud they are illuminating.

But did you know that the cloud is (likely) unrelated with the 7 sisters ?

#Astronomy #Sapce

Messier 45: The Daughters of Atlas and Pleione
Image Credit & Copyright: Stefan Thrun

Read more: https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap230105.html

On this impressive #TWAN #photography taken by Petr Horálek from the Kitt Peak National Observatory in Arizona 🇺🇸, one can see:
- the 4-m Nicolas U. Mayall #telescope with the observatory in the background
- the 22' November 8th #TotalLunarEclipse
- the #Orion constellation with the red star forming regions
- The #Pleaides cluster in the #Taurus with #Mars in the horns
- The #Andromeda #galaxy
- green, yellow & red #airglows
- the #MilkyWay

#Astronomy

credit: KPNO/NOIRLab/NSF/AURA/P. Horálek