Astrophotographer captures Pleiades 'Seven Sisters' glowing through ghostly blue veil

The stars of the Pleiades open cluster shine alongside blue reflection nebulas. (Image credit: Mark Germani) Astrophotographer Mark Germani captured a phenomenal view of the Pleiades open star cluster surrounded by glowing blue nebulas 445 light-years from Earth in the constellation Taurus. Germani's deep-space photo reveals dozens of stars from the Pleiades , a cluster of over 1,000 blue-white stars , including its seven brightest members Alcyone, Asterope, Merope, Celaeno, Electra, Maia and …