Pleiades
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- The "seven sisters", companions of Artemis and daughters of the Titan Atlas and the sea-nymph Pleione.
- An open cluster of hot blue stars in the constellation Taurus, and the most easily visible such cluster from Earth.
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From Latin Pleiades, from Ancient Greek Πλειάδες (Pleiádes). In the astronomical sense, displaced Old English seofonstierre (literally “the seven stars”).
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