Pleione (star), a star belonging to the Pleiades star cluster
Pleione (orchid), a genus mainly of ground orchids. Prefer to grow on tree-trunks and in rock crevices
Pleione (Journal), the official scientific Journal of the East Himalayan Society for Spermatophyte Taxonomy from North Bengal University, India (ISSN 0973-9467)
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The very faint portion of the Pleiades reflection nebula closest to Pleione was cataloged as Ced 19p.
According to its B8 spectral type, Pleione is of white color.
Remarks on painting located on the back, "Pleione, a naked eye star of the Pleiades cluster, seen from a hypothetical planet 93 million miles away - the same distance as our earth from the sun.
From its distance of 385 light years, Pleione shines with a luminosity 190 times that of the Sun, its radius 3.2 solar, its mass (from the luminosity and temperature) 3.4 solar.
Pleione's glory lies in its spectrum, its array of colors.
The difference in Be star styles was once thought to be a matter of orientation, but Pleione puts the lie to the theory by switching among all three phases, normal B star, Be star, Be shell star, the changes taking place at intervals of 17 and 34 years.
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