It is often called the Seven Sisters, though there are in fact a lot more than seven stars in it.
Alcyone has no other name.
Don`t know thats why im asking
32 Moby Thesaurus words for "pleiades": big name, celebrity, constellation, cynosure, figure, folk hero, galaxy, great man, hero, heroine, idol, immortal, important person, lion, luminaries, luminary, man of mark, master spirit, name, notability, notable, person of note, personage, pop hero, popular hero, popular idol, public figure, social lion, somebody, star, superstar, worthy A pleiad is a brilliant group of usually 7 persons or things (named after Pleiades)
Another name for the sweetbriar is eglantine.
It is an oesophagus
Another name for plateau is tableland.
Alcyone, with an apparent magnitude of 2.86
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.
The stars of Pleiades are: Sterope Merope Electra Maia Taygeta Celaeno Alcyone Atlas Pleione
Alcyone , Asterope , Celæno , Electra , Maia , Merope and Taygete.I GOT THIS OFF THIS SITE'S URL: http://www.naic.edu/~gibson/pleiades/pleiades_myth.html
Alcyone (in the Pleiades), Rigel in Orion, Spica in Virgo, Deneb in Cygnus, Eta Carina in the deep southern skies.
The Pleiades, or Seven Sisters are group of stars known by Maori as Matariki.The nine brightest stars of the Pleiades are named for the Seven Sisters of Greek mythology: Sterope, Merope, Electra, Maia, Taygeta, Celaeno, and Alcyone, along with their parents Atlas and Pleione.To read more or see photos click on related links below
Hipparchia alcyone was created in 1775.
Alcyone - opera - was created in 1706.
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Ceyx and Alcyone referred to one another as Zeus and Hera. This offended Zeus, so he separated them by Ceyx's death. As an afterthought, Zeus turned them into the Halcyon birds.
Matariki in Greece is called the Pleiades.
Jim Hawkins's full name from Treasure Planet is James Pleiades Hawkins.