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What is the Milky Way and the pleiades are different?

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The Pleiades are a star cluster, only about a thousand stars - while the Milky Way is a galaxy, a group of 200-400 billion stars.

Rather confusingly, the "Milky Way" is also the name of the faint band of light in

the night sky caused by millions of stars within the Milky Way Galaxy.

They are too faint to be seen as individual stars with the naked eye. It is a "line of sight" effect not a cluster of stars.

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