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The Pleiades is named after the seven sisters of Greek mythology, the daughters of Atlas (one of the titans) because it was charted that it consisted of seven stars, though of course it only appeared this way before they could be resolved into the thousands that actually make up the cluster. The cluster is also called 'The Seven Sisters' for similar reasons.

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