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
The Pleiades by Elihu Vedder
Lost Pleiad (1884) by William-Adolphe Bouguereau.
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The Pleiades, also known as Seven Sisters and Messier 45, is an asterism of an open star cluster containing young B-type stars in the northwest of the constellation Taurus. At a distance of about 444
Pleiades (Greek mythology)
…Nysiades, nursemaids and teachers of the infant Dionysus. The Pleiades were thought to have been translated to the night sky as a cluster of stars, the Pleiades, and were associated with rain. The name Pleiades ostensibly derived from the name of their mother, Pleione, effectively meaning "daughters of Pleione…
A color-composite image of the Pleiades from the Digitized Sky Survey
On the Nebra sky disc, dated circa 1600 BC, the cluster of seven dots in the upper right portion of the disk is believed to be the Pleiades.
Commemorative silver one dollar coin issued in 2020 by the Royal Australian Mint - on the reverse, the Seven Sisters (Pleiades) are represented as they are portrayed in an ancient story of Australian Indigenous tradition.
Hubble Space Telescope image of reflection nebulosity near Merope (IC 349)