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.
The Pleiades is not a constellation - it's an open cluster of stars and it's approx. 400 light years away from Earth.Hey, per Wikipedea itself, go figure... "Some Greek astronomers considered them to be a distinct constellation, .... As daughters of Atlas, the Hyades were sisters of the Pleiades. ..."ref: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pleiades_(star_cluster)
The Pleadies star cluster is about 400 light years from Earth.
Matariki, also known as the Pleiades star cluster, is about 440 light-years away from Earth. It is a prominent feature in the night sky and is often used for navigation and cultural observations by various indigenous groups around the world.
The pleiades are known as "Matariki"
Each constellation is made of stars that are all approximately in the same direction as seen from Earth. That does not mean they are grouped together in 3D space. The bright star in Taurus is Aldebaran, which is 60-70 light years away and about 100 times brighter than the Sun. The Pleiades is an open cluster that is in Taurus, about 500 light-years away, and the brightest star in the Pleiades, Alcyone, is 2-3 times brighter than Aldebaran.
The Pleiades cluster is made up of new, hot stars of type B and A, still in traces of the gas cloud that they condensed from. From one side of the Pleiades to the other is about as far as from here to Sirius, so if you were on a planet attached to one of those stars you would see some fairly bright stars at night.
The Pleiades is not a constellation. It's an open cluster.
The Pleiades were the seven daughters of the Titan Atlas and Pleione the sea nymph.
Order of the Pleiades - Iran - happened in 1957.
Subaru is Japanese for Pleiades. The Pleiades is an open star cluster. The Subaru logo has an image of stars similar to the stars of Pleiades, but whereas the Pleiades has 7 stars, the Subaru logo has only 6.
Far, far away is a saying that means something is literally far away.
The Pleiades is found in the constellation Taurus, the Bull.