Messier 3 — A Swarm of Ancient Suns
Imaging M3 is more than just an exercise in precision — it’s a quiet confrontation with scale, time, and the staggering probability that life might be far more common than we once imagined.
The Pleiades or Seven Sisters, M45
The Pleiades are a group of more than 800 stars located about 410 light-years from Earth in the constellation Taurus.
The Pleiades star cluster (M45)
The Pleiades would "flee mighty Orion and plunge into the misty deep" as they set in the West, which they would begin to do just before dawn during October–November.
Comet C/2017 T2 (PANSTARRS) and NGC 869 and NGC 884 aka Double Cluster Conjunction
Sometimes you get lucky!
Messier 3 (M3)
Messier 3 (M3) is a globular cluster located in the constellation Canes Venatici, the Hunting Dogs.