Maia (star)
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Maia, designated 20 Tauri, is a star in the constellation of Taurus. It is a blue giant of spectral type B8 III, a chemically peculiar star.
Maia in the Pleiades cluster Credit: NASA/ESA/AURA/Caltech
NGC 1432 surrounding Maia
Hermes with his mother Maia. Detail of the side B of an Attic red-figure belly-amphora, ca. 500 BC.
Pleiades (Greek mythology)
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The Pleiades were the seven sister-nymphs, companions of Artemis, the goddess of the hunt. Together with their sisters, the Hyades, they were sometimes called the Atlantides, Dodonides, or Nysiades, n
Maia (star)
…1432 and sometimes called the Maia Nebula. Maia is also called Gaia. The name Maia originates with the Greek: Μαῖα and Latin: Maia. Maia is one of the seven daughters of Atlas and Pleione in Greek mythology—stars which are also included in the Pleiades star cluster. In 2016, the International Astronomical Union…
The Pleiades by Elihu Vedder
Lost Pleiad (1884) by William-Adolphe Bouguereau.
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Apollo and Daphne