EXPLORE THE NIGHT SKY - Episode 1, The Pleiades (M45)

Welcome to the this new series of educational videos about the cosmos titled ’Explore the Night Sky’. The consist of short episodes focusing on one celestial object or phenomenon that can be observed from Earth. They are kid friendly and their purpose is to make people discover the sky at night while encouraging science education and promoting the fight against light pollution. In this episode, we feature the open star cluster ’Pleiades’, aka Messier 45, M 45 or the ’Seven Sisters’ through a series of time-lapse sequences taken in various locations around the Earth (Norway, Switzerland, Spain, Chile). A lot of people have seen this small patchy group of star without realizing it contains about 1000 of them! Learn more about it by watching the rest of this mesmerizing film.