Published Monday 25 July 2022 | 17:52
In a report, the Jeddah Astronomical Society revealed that Venus is associated with the Pleiades star cluster annually, and the best of these conjunctions occur in the month of April.
As happened in April 2020, when the planet apparently passed by only a quarter of a degree south of the star (Elison), the brightest star within the Pleiades, which was an exceptional case of conjunction and one of the best pairings during the twenty-first century.
Before sunrise, Venus will appear towards the northeast horizon and will be at its peak of brilliance, but the Pleiades cluster cannot be seen from inside cities due to light pollution.
And there is a need to use the telescope as the flower and the chandelier cluster will appear in the same field of view and the view will look like a cosmic jewelry box.
The Pleiades cluster, also known as the Seven Sisters, resembles the stars of the Little Bear, but has a hazy appearance. The cluster consists of young stars that were formed only 100 million years ago – during the age of the dinosaurs – from the collapse of a gas cloud between the stars. The largest members of this cluster are blue-white stars five times wider than the sun.
Due to its distance of regarding 400 light-years, the chandelier is within the limit of vision with the naked eye, and when looking at it on a clear night, the brightest six stars can be easily distinguished in it. , provided that the observation is far from the city lights, and that the eye of the observer has caught the darkness.
