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The brightest stars of the cluster are named the Seven Sisters in early Greek mythology: Sterope, Merope, Electra, Maia, Taygeta, Celaeno, and Alcyone. Later, they were assigned parents, Pleione and Atlas. [17] As daughters of Atlas, the Hyades were sisters of the Pleiades. The following table gives details of the brightest stars in the cluster:
Maia / ˈ m eɪ ə /, designated 20 Tauri (abbreviated 20 Tau), is a star in the constellation of Taurus. It is a blue giant of spectral type B8 III, a chemically peculiar star, and the prototype of the Maia variable class of variable star. Maia is the fourth-brightest star in the Pleiades open star cluster (Messier 45), after Alcyone, Atlas ...
It is approximately 430 light years from the Sun; [5] about the same distance as the Pleiades. The interstellar extinction of this star is fairly small at 0.05 magnitudes. [11] The projected rotational velocity of the equator is 185 km/s. [8] It is over four times the radius of the Sun and has a surface temperature of 12,800 K. [6] [7]
M80, a globular cluster, and the Pleiades, an open star cluster; The Whirlpool galaxy and Abell 2744, a galaxy cluster; ... Minor planets. List of minor planets.
Alcyone / æ l ˈ s aɪ ə n iː /, [11] designated η Tauri (Eta Tauri, abbreviated Eta Tau, η Tau), is a star in the constellation of Taurus. Approximately 440 light-years from the Sun, it is the brightest star in the Pleiades open cluster, which is a young cluster, around 100 million years old. There are a number of fainter stars very close ...
23 Tauri is the star's Flamsteed designation.The name Merope originates with Greek mythology; she is one of the seven daughters of Atlas and Pleione known as the Pleiades.In 2016, the International Astronomical Union organized a Working Group on Star Names (WGSN) [21] to catalog and standardize proper names for stars.
All the planetary action is in the evening sky. Watch the Moon pass a couple of bright stars and planets, see below for dates. ... Moon near Pleiades star cluster in the evening sky. 13th ...
Planets d, e, f and g are potentially habitable. Only star known with exactly seven confirmed planets. All seven terrestrial planets lie within only 0.07 AU of the star. 55 Cancri: Cancer: 08 h 52 m 35.81 s +28° 19′ 50.9″ 5.95: 40: K0IV-V: 1.026: 5217: 7.4: 5: All five known planets orbit around star A (none are circumbinary or orbit ...