Pleiades

  1. Proper noun.  (Greek mythology) The "seven sisters", companions of Artemis and daughters of the Titan Atlas and the sea-nymph Pleione.
  2. Proper noun.  (astronomy) An open cluster of hot blue stars in the constellation Taurus, and the most easily visible such cluster from Earth.

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