1) American literary magazine 2) Biannual magazine 3) Cluster in taurus 4) Daughters who became stars 5) NASA supercomputer 6) Nymph 7) Seven daughters of Atlas 8) Seven nymphs of greek myth 9) Seven Sisters of the sky 10) Star group in Taurus 11) Taurus cluster 12) The seven daughters of Atlas
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1) Seven sisters
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1) Composition by Iannis Xenakis
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Credit: NASA/ESA/AURA/Caltech | name = Pleiades | type = Open Cluster | epoch = J2000 | ra = {RA|3|47|24} | dec = {DEC|+24|7} | dist_ly = 444 ly | dist_pc = 136.2+/-1.2 pc | appmag_v = 1.6 | size_v = 110` (arcmin.) | radius_ly = | absmag_v = | constellation = Taurus | notes = | names = M45, Seven Sisters, Melotte 22 }} In astronomy, the Pleiades ....
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[Greek mythology] The Pleiades (z or z; Πλειάδες pleːádes, Modern pliˈaðes), companions of Artemis, were the seven daughters of the titan Atlas and the sea-nymph Pleione born on Mount Cyllene. They are the sisters of Calypso, Hyas, the Hyades, and the Hesperides. The Pleiades were nymphs in the train of Artemis, and together wit...
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[journal] Pleiades: A Journal of New Writing is an award-winning biannual literary journal that publishes contemporary poetry, fiction, essays, and book reviews. Active for more that thirty years, the non-profit journal is published by the University of Central Missouri`s Department of English and Philosophy. Pleiades publishes work from bo...
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[satellite] The Pléiades constellation is composed of two very-high-resolution optical Earth-imaging satellites. Pléiades 1A and Pléiades 1B provide the coverage of Earth’s surface with a repeat cycle of 26 days. Designed as a dual civil/military system, Pléiades will meet the space imagery requirements of European defence as well as ...
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[supercomputer] Pleiades (pronounced /pliː ə diːz/ or /pʰ le diːz/) is a petascale supercomputer housed at the NASA Advanced Supercomputing (NAS) facility at NASA Ames Research Center located at Moffett Field near Mountain View, California. It is maintained by NASA and partners Silicon Graphics (SGI) and Intel. As of November 2013 it i...
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[volcano group] The Pleiades is a volcanic group of youthful cones and domes with Mt. Pleiones, a small stratovolcano being the dominant volcano and rising 500 m above the Evans Neve Plateau. Three nested summit craters lie at the top of Mt. Pleiones. Taygete Cone in the Pleiades was dated at 3000 years, making it one of the youngest volcan...
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Pléïades is a composition for six percussionists composed in 1978 by Greek composer Iannis Xenakis, originally commissioned by the percussion ensemble Les Percussions de Strasbourg. == Title == The title of this work is intentionally ambiguous: on one hand, the term comes from a word meaning `many`, and which alludes to all of the instruments .....
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• (n. pl.) The seven daughters of Atlas and the nymph Pleione, fabled to have been made by Jupiter a constellation in the sky. • (n. pl.) A group of small stars in the neck of the constellation Taurus.
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(catalog number M45), open cluster of stars in the zodiacal constellation Taurus, about 410 light-years from the solar system. It contains a large ... [7 related articles]
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in Greek mythology, the seven daughters of the Titan Atlas and the Oceanid Pleione: Maia, Electra, Taygete, Celaeno, Alcyone, Sterope, and Merope. ... [1 related articles]
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(M45, NGC 1432) A nearby, fairly loose open cluster of about 500 stars in the constellation Taurus. It is also known as the Seven Sisters, although most people can see only six stars, all of them bright blue-white B or Be stars: Alcyone, Atlas, Electra, Maia, Merope, and Ta...
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In Greek mythology, the seven daughters of the giant Atlas who asked to be changed into a cluster of stars to escape the pursuit of the hunter Orion. ...
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1. The seven daughters of Atlas and the nymph Pleione, fabled to have been made by Jupiter a constellation in the sky. ... 2. <astronomy> A group of small stars in the neck of the constellation Taurus. ... Alcyone, the brightest of these, a star of the third magnitude, was considered by Madler the central point around which our universe is re...
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Ple'ia·des noun plural [ Latin , from Greek ]
1. (Myth.) The seven daughters of Atlas and the nymph Pleione, fabled to have been made by Jupiter a constellation in the sky.
2. (Astron.) A group of small stars in the neck of the constellation Taurus.
Job xxxviii. 31....
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The Pleiades were the seven daughters of Atlas and Pleione. They were turned into doves by Zeus and their image put into the stars to save them from the attentions of Orion.
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n] - (Greek mythology) 7 daughters of Atlas and half-sisters of the Hyades 2. [n] - a star cluster in the constellation Taurus
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noun a star cluster in the constellation Taurus
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(astronomy) In astronomy, an open star cluster about 400 light years away from Earth in the constellation Taurus, represented as the Seven Sisters of Greek mythology. Its brightest stars (highly luminous, blue-white giants only a few million years old) are visible to the naked eye, but the...
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Alcyone, Celaeno, Electra, Maia, Merope, Sterope or Asterope, Taygeta; seven daughters of Atlas; transformed into heavenly constellation, of which six stars are visible (Merope is said to have hidden in shame for loving a mortal).
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