A huge family of newborn stars seem to now be going their separate ways: Over 1,000 stars are hurriedly fleeing their nest in ...

is the Pleiades (M45). In ancient times, this star pattern was so highly regarded that many Greek philosophers considered it ...

The Pleiades, made up of more than 1,000 stars, are located in the constellation of Taurus the Bull, around 440 light years away from Earth, according to the Royal Observatory Greenwich.