Pleiades

Summary

Pleiades is an open cluster^[1]. Pleiades ranks in the top 0.93% of open_cluster entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (2,948 views/month, #1 of 108).^[2]

Key Facts

• Pleiades's image is recorded as Pleiades large.jpg^[3].
• Pleiades's image is recorded as M45map.jpg^[4].
• Pleiades's instance of is recorded as open cluster^[5].
• Pleiades's constellation is recorded as Taurus^[6].
• Pleiades is named after Pleiades^[7].
• pearl necklace is named after Pleiades^[8].
• Pleiades's VIAF cluster ID is recorded as 237301763^[9].
• Pleiades's spectral class is recorded as I,3,m^[10].
• Pleiades's GND ID is recorded as 4174907-8^[11].
• Pleiades's part of is recorded as Orion Arm^[12].
• Pleiades's Commons category is recorded as Pleiades (star cluster)^[13].
• Pleiades's pronunciation audio is recorded as Pleiades-ar.wav^[14].
• Pleiades's said to be the same as is recorded as Vergiliae^[15].
• Pleiades's BNCF Thesaurus ID is recorded as 74640^[16].
• Pleiades's has part is recorded as Alcyone^[17].
• Pleiades's has part is recorded as Atlas^[18].
• Pleiades's has part is recorded as Electra^[19].
• Pleiades's has part is recorded as Merope^[20].
• Pleiades's has part is recorded as Taygeta^[21].
• Pleiades's has part is recorded as Pleione^[22].
• Pleiades's has part is recorded as Maia^[23].
• Pleiades's has part is recorded as Celaeno^[24].
• Pleiades's has part is recorded as Asterope^[25].
• Pleiades's catalog code is recorded as M 45^[26].
• Pleiades's catalog code is recorded as OCl 421.0^[27].

Body

Geography

Pleiades's part of is recorded as Orion Arm^[12].

Designation and Status

Pleiades's instance of is recorded as open cluster^[5].

History and Context

Catalog codes include M 45^[26], OCl 421.0^[27], Collinder 42^[28], Melotte 22^[29], C 0344+239^[30], and [KPS2012] MWSC 0305^[31]. Things named after include Pleiades^[7], a sibling group^[32] and pearl necklace^[8].

Cultural Significance

Things named for Pleiades include Pledis Entertainment^[33], a record label^[34], in South Korea^[35], founded in 2007^[36], headquartered in Seoul^[37]; Matariki^[38], a festival^[39], in New Zealand^[40]; Subaru Telescope^[41], an optical telescope^[42], in United States^[43], founded in 1997^[44]; Order of the Pleiades^[45], an order^[46], in Iran^[47], founded in 1957^[48]; and Alexandrian Pleiad^[49], a group of humans^[50].

Why It Matters

Pleiades ranks in the top 0.93% of open_cluster entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (2,948 views/month, #1 of 108).^[2] Pleiades has Wikipedia articles in 30 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.^[51] Pleiades is known by 75 alternative names across languages and contexts.^[52]

Entities named for Pleiades include Pledis Entertainment^[33], a record label^[34], in South Korea^[35], founded in 2007^[36], headquartered in Seoul^[37]; Matariki^[38], a festival^[39], in New Zealand^[40]; Subaru Telescope^[41], an optical telescope^[42], in United States^[43], founded in 1997^[44]; Order of the Pleiades^[45], an order^[46], in Iran^[47], founded in 1957^[48]; and Alexandrian Pleiad^[49], a group of humans^[50].