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The Pleiades are a prominent sight in the northern hemisphere in winter, and have been known since antiquity to cultures all around the world, including the Maori and Australian Aborigines, the Japanese and the Sioux of North America.
Accurate knowledge of the distance to the Pleiades allows astronomers to plot a Hertzsprung-Russell Diagram for the cluster, which when compared to that plotted for clusters whose distance is not known allows their distance to be estimated.
The nine brightest stars of the Pleiades are named for the Seven Sisters of Greek mythology: Asterope, Merope, Electra, Maia, Taygete, Celaeno and Alcyone, along with their parents Atlas and Pleione.
Pleiades (mythology), in Greek mythology, the seven daughters of Atlas and of Pleione, the daughter of Oceanus.
The Pleiades are a dipper-shaped cluster of stars situated in the “shoulder” of the constellation Taurus.
The Pleiades is also interpreted as a mother hen with her chickens, especially in Eurasia, where the star Aldebaran, which is located close to the Pleiades, is often included as a part of the constellation.
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