pleiades

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1. pleiades - Noun

3. Pleiades - Proper noun

Meaning

The seven daughters of Atlas and the nymph Pleione, fabled to have been made by Jupiter a constellation in the sky.

A group of small stars in the neck of the constellation Taurus.

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Composition X-ray images of the Pleiades reveal the stars with the hottest atmospheres. Source: Internet

Distance Comet Machholz appears to pass near the Pleiades in early 2005 An amateur photograph taken with a DSLR camera. Source: Internet

He demonstrated a relationship between the star colors and their magnitudes, and in 1929 noticed that the Hyades and Praesepe clusters had different stellar populations than the Pleiades. Source: Internet

However, in 1918 the Dutch-American astronomer Adriaan van Maanen was able to measure the proper motion of stars in part of the Pleiades cluster by comparing photographic plates taken at different times. Source: Internet

It is suggested that the Pleiades are called the hens of Frigg or of Freya by Norse peoples. Source: Internet

Later work consistently argued that the Hipparcos distance measurement for the Pleiades was erroneous. Source: Internet

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