Seven Sisters

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Seven Sisters is the common name for the Pleiades, a prominent open star cluster in the constellation Taurus visible to the naked eye.

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Statements (48)

Predicate Object
instanceOf astronomical object
open star cluster
star cluster
age about 100 million years
alsoKnownAs Pleiades
apparentMagnitudeV about 1.6
bestSeenIn Northern Hemisphere winter
catalogCode C 0344+240
Melotte 22
contains over 1,000 confirmed members
containsStar Alcyone
Titan
surface form: Atlas

Celaeno
Electra
Maia
Merope
Pleione
Sterope
Taygeta
declination +24° 07′
distanceFromEarth about 136 parsecs
about 444 light-years
dominantColor blue
hasAngularSize about 110 arcminutes
hasCulturalSignificanceIn Greek mythology
Japanese culture
Maori culture
Native American traditions
hasFeature reflection nebula
hasMessierNumber M45
hasMythologicalAssociation seven daughters of Atlas and Pleione
hasNGCNumber NGC 1432
NGC 1432
surface form: NGC 1435
hasProperMotion common cluster motion
isAsterismOf seven prominent stars
isBrightestOpenClusterIn northern sky
isGravitationallyBound true
isUsedFor calibration of distance scale in astronomy
studies of stellar evolution
liesNearEcliptic true
locatedInConstellation Taurus
locatedInGalaxy Milky Way
memberOf Orion Arm
surface form: Local Arm of the Milky Way
observedSince antiquity
rightAscension 03h 47m
risesBefore Orion
spectralTypeDominant B-type main-sequence stars
visibleTo naked eye

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Subject: Seven Sisters
Description of subject: Seven Sisters is the common name for the Pleiades, a prominent open star cluster in the constellation Taurus visible to the naked eye.

Referenced by (6)

Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.

Pleiades alsoKnownAs Seven Sisters
M45 alsoKnownAs Seven Sisters
M45 greekMythologyAssociation Seven Sisters
this entity surface form: the Seven Sisters, daughters of Atlas and Pleione
Taygeta belongsToAsterism Seven Sisters
Melotte 22 alsoKnownAs Seven Sisters
Messier 45 alsoKnownAs Seven Sisters