Get one last look at the Pleiades before it disappears from the spring sky

Head outside tonight and drink in the sight of the Pleiades open star cluster glistening close to the red star Aldebaran in the constellation Taurus, before the mesmerizing naked-eye jewel slips out of view with the changing of the seasons.

The Pleiades is a vast collection of roughly 1,000 gravitationally bound blue-white stars, the seven most prominent of which are named after the daughters of the Titan Atlas from Greek mythology — Asterope, Alcyone, Celaeno, Maia, Electra, Taygete and Merope.

The Pleiades are at their most spectacular from October to March, after which the cluster slips ever lower in the spring sky, appearing closer to the horizon with each passing night. By late April, it will be lost to sight in the glare of the setting sun and won't be seen again until the very end of June, when it will briefly shine close to the red light of Mars in the predawn sky.