What constellation is Taurus?

Taurus, astronomical symbol:? . The area is 797.25 square degrees, accounting for 1.933% of the total area of the whole day, ranking seventeenth among the 88 constellations in the whole day. In Taurus, there are 98 stars with brightness greater than 5.5, the brightest star is Bisuwu (Taurus α), and the apparent magnitude is 0.85. Every year165438+1on the evening of October 30th, the center of Taurus passes through the upper meridian.

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In Taurus, orange Betelgeuse is one of the few stars with magnitude 0 in the sky, which forms a hexagon with Kitagawa III of Gemini, Capella 22 of Auriga, Nanhe III of Canis Canis, Sirius of Canis Canis and Betelgeuse of Orion.

Traditionally, Capella is one of the horns and belongs to Taurus and Auriga. Taurus can see two open clusters with the naked eye: Pleiades and Pleiades.

The most famous celestial body in Taurus is "two clusters plus a nebula". Connecting Orion γ star and Cebu star, extending about twice the distance to the northwest, there is a famous open cluster-Pleiades cluster. People with good eyesight can see seven bright stars in this cluster, so it was also called "Seven Star Cluster" in ancient China.

The Pleiades cluster is 450 light-years away and its radius is 13 light-years. Observed with a large telescope, it can be found that there are more than 280 stars in the Pleiades cluster. Another open cluster is called Biju Cluster, which is a mobile cluster located near Biju, but Biju is not a member. Bi cluster is 0/43 light-years away from us/kloc-and is the closest cluster to us. You can see five or six stars with the naked eye. In fact, it has about 300 members.