http://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap120903.html
I chose an image of the M45: The Pleiades Star Cluster. It is one of the closest and most open star clusters that we know of. It has around 3000 stars and is an astonishing 400 light years away. The picture strikes interest into me because of the few very notably bright stars, which are known as the "Seven Sisters". Apparently, some "light brown dwarfs" (a small star with not enough mass to shine by nuclear fission) have been found within Pleiades. This start cluster is a combination between large and smaller stars making it very diverse and interesting to me.
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