[0:00]See that tight blue cluster in the distance? Cultures all over the world built stories around it. The Greeks called it the Seven Sisters. In Japan, it's Subaru. But it's not just seven stars. There are over a thousand. We're crossing about 440 light-years, roughly 2.6 quadrillion miles, to reach the Pleiades Star Cluster. These stars are incredibly young, only about 100 million years old. When they formed, dinosaurs still walked the Earth. The brightest stars here are hot blue stars, over 10,000 Kelvin at the surface. And that faint blue cloud surrounding them? That's not glowing gas, it's dust reflecting their light. Like fog lit by headlights. But these stars won't stay together forever. In a few hundred million years, they'll drift apart and dissolve into the Milky Way. Right now, they're still the same seven sisters humans have watched for thousands of years. One of the closest star clusters to our home.

"Journey to the Seven Sisters 🌟 The Pleiades Star Cluster That Ancient Civilizations Worshipped!"
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