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Hair of the Pleiades

Emanuele La Barbera, taken from Piano Battaglia, Sicily, Italy

The Pleiades (M45) star cluster is one of the most famous naked-eye objects in the sky, but only deep photographic exposures reveal the complexity of the fine strands of dust surrounding the stars. This imager took 28 hours of exposure with a 3.4-inch scope with a one-shot color camera.