The Pleiades is not a constellation. It's an open cluster.
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Pleiades
About 135 parsecs.
The Pleiades star cluster is also known as the Seven Sisters, Messier 45 (M45), and Subaru in Japan.
The Pleiades is a open star cluster. It contains mostly blue-white type stars, so the colour of the cluster would appear to be blue-white. However, it is a cluster and not a single star. See related question.
The Pleiades cluster contains over 1,000 statistically confirmed members, although this figure excludes unresolved binary stars.
Subaru is Japanese for Pleiades. The Pleiades is an open star cluster. The Subaru logo has an image of stars similar to the stars of Pleiades, but whereas the Pleiades has 7 stars, the Subaru logo has only 6.
star cluster, also known as the pleiades
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You're probably observing the Pleiades star cluster (Seven Sisters).
The star cluster called Pleiades is also known as the Seven Sisters. It's scientific name is Messier 45, is in the constellation Taurus and the closest star cluster to Earth. The cluster is also called Maia Nebula, after one of the stars.