The Pleiads--the prettiest star cluster of all--is...

The Pleiads--the prettiest star cluster of all--is halfway up the western sky, in Taurus, during the early evening. To the unaided ye, the Pleiades is six faint stars in a pattern that looks like a tiny dipper. binoculars reveal perhaps two dozen fainter stars. The Pleiades is a young cluster (roughly 100 million years old) of bright blue stars 380 light-years from Earth and about a dozen light-years across.

Source: John Mosley, Griffith Observatory