Many a night I saw the Pleiads, rising thro' the mellow shade, Glitter like a swarm of fireflies tangled in a silver braid. - Alfred, Lord Tennyson, 1837-8, Locksley Hall The Pleiades (C) Copyright Anglo-Australian Observatory / Royal Observatory, Edinburgh. Permission required for use. Photography by David Malin. The Pleiades star cluster, also known as the Seven Sisters and Messier 45, is a ...

F. E. Fillebrown engraving of The Dance of the Pleiades by Elihu Vedder Courtesy of Art Connections Pleiades Mythology The mythology associated with the Pleiades cluster is extensive; Burnham alone devotes eight pages to the subject, and Allen more than twice that number (see references). Here only Greek legends are presented. Even so, these are manifold and often contradictory, being patched ...

M45 The Pleiades Description: The Seven Sisters, or Subaru (open cluster) Constellation: Taurus Seds page Small Image Large Image Other Messier Objects Previous: M44 Next: M46 The Pleiades are, according to Greek mythology, the seven daughters of Atlas, the titan who holds up the sky, and the Oceanid named Pleione. The sisters are Alcyone, Maia, Electra, Taygeta, Celaeno, Merope and Sterope. The ...

THE ORIGIN OF THE PLEIADES A young man was out fasting. His fasting lodge stood at a place where no one ever ventured, near the end of a lake. Just below, a fine and broad beach stretched on both sides. When his fast was almost over, one evening, the young man was sitting in the entrance of his lodge. He heard something. The faint and distant sound of songs came to his ear. He did not know what ...

Welcome to http://hou.lbl.gov/~vhoette/Explorations/StarHop/seven.html/ Pleiades, the Seven Sisters Where are the Pleiades This is the Pleiades star cluster in the historical drawing of Taurus. Can you match any of the stars from the above sky photo to the historical drawing Find Pleiades in this photo of the whole constellation of Taurus. Did you find Pleiades Learn the names of the stars in ...

Star Cluster The Pleiades Mythology and History The Seven Sisters. In Greek myths, they are the daughters of Atlas (the giant who supported the world on his shoulders) and Pleione. Zeus first transformed the sisters into doves, and then into stars to enable them to escape the attention of Orion, who for seven long years pursued the maidens, and Pleione, to claim them for himself. The sisters are ...