It's the second-closest star cluster to Earth, it's often overshadowed by the more famous Pleiades, and it appears so large that many new stargazers don't even know it's a true star cluster. But the Hyades, which make up the V-shaped head of the constellation Taurus, the Bull, is a resplendent collection of young and mostly blue-white stars that are lovely to the
unaided eye and a wonder to behold in a pair of binoculars.
Here's how to see it...