Science 22

Science at Parramatta High
Pleiades - the Seven Sisters
— October 2000 —

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More information below.

This is the star cluster the Pleiades, or the Seven Sisters, or M45.
The seven sisters can be seen to the left of their mother and father, Pleione and Atlas.

The Japanese name for this cluster is (you guessed it) "Subaru".
The badge at left is inverted to match the southern hemisphere view.

Can you see how the stars in the badge match the real stars?
Hint: two stars, close together, look like one bright star from a distance.
(Sterope and Celaeno miss out, and Mum and Dad are depicted as one bright star.)

The Seven Sisters, by themselves, are far too small to be called a "constellation".

They are in the constellation of Taurus.

The Seven Sisters, revisted 4½ years later.
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