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What is the color of the Pleiades?
The Pleiades is a open star cluster. It contains mostly blue-white type stars, so the colour of the cluster would appear to be blue-white. However, it is a cluster and not a single star. See related question.
What are the Pleiades also known as?
The star cluster called Pleiades is also known as the Seven Sisters. It's scientific name is Messier 45, is in the constellation Taurus and the closest star cluster to Earth. The cluster is also called Maia Nebula, after one of the stars.
What is pleiades' alcyone?
The Pleiades are the seven daughters of Atlas and Pleione, of which Alcyone is numbered among them being the Pleiad star-nymph of Mount Kithairon in Boiotia (central Greece) loved by the god Poseidon.
What is the open cluster of stars visible in the constellation of Taurus?
The open cluster of stars visible in the constellation of Taurus is the Pleiades, also known as the Seven Sisters. It is one of the closest star clusters to Earth and is easily visible to the naked eye. The Pleiades cluster contains hundreds of hot, young stars formed within the last 100 million years.
What is the name of seven star constellation?
The Pleiades, also known as the Seven Sisters, is a well-known star cluster in the constellation of Taurus. It is one of the closest star clusters to Earth and is easily visible to the naked eye.
What is the distance from the Pleides Star Cluster to the Earth?
The article on the Pleiades in Wikipedia states that the star cluster is approximately 135 parsecs or 440 light-years.
What is the brightest of the Pleiades?
Alcyone, with an apparent magnitude of 2.86
How we know the distance to the pleiades star cluster?
The most accurate current measurements are from very long baseline interferometry.
What Japanese company is named for a star cluster?
Pleiades
How far away is the pleiades?
440 light-years. I would say this is the current estimate. There is always some error in those distance measurements.440 light-years. I would say this is the current estimate. There is always some error in those distance measurements.440 light-years. I would say this is the current estimate. There is always some error in those distance measurements.440 light-years. I would say this is the current estimate. There is always some error in those distance measurements.
What other names are there for the pleiades?
The Seven Sisters (if you are referring to the star cluster).
Sven sisters constellation?
star cluster, also known as the pleiades
What other names does matariki have?
Its : pleiades star cluster and first rising
What is the color of the Pleiades?
The Pleiades is a open star cluster. It contains mostly blue-white type stars, so the colour of the cluster would appear to be blue-white. However, it is a cluster and not a single star. See related question.
Is Matariki a star?
In Māori, Matariki is the name of the Pleiades star cluster. [See related question]
What are the Pleiades also known as?
The star cluster called Pleiades is also known as the Seven Sisters. It's scientific name is Messier 45, is in the constellation Taurus and the closest star cluster to Earth. The cluster is also called Maia Nebula, after one of the stars.
What is pleiades' alcyone?
The Pleiades are the seven daughters of Atlas and Pleione, of which Alcyone is numbered among them being the Pleiad star-nymph of Mount Kithairon in Boiotia (central Greece) loved by the god Poseidon.
