Pleiades
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Summary
Pleiades is an open cluster[1]. Pleiades ranks in the top 0.93% of open cluster entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (29,068 views/month, #1 of 108).[2]
Key Facts
- Constellation: Taurus[3]
- Named after: Pleiades[4], pearl necklace[5]
- Spectral class: I,3,m[6]
- Part of: Orion Arm[7]
- Commons category: Pleiades (star cluster)[8]
- Said to be the same as: Vergiliae[9]
- Has part(s): Alcyone[10], Atlas[11], Electra[12], Merope[13], Taygeta[14], Pleione[15], Maia[16], Celaeno[17], Asterope[18]
- Catalog code: M 45[19], OCl 421.0[20], Collinder 42[21], Melotte 22[22], C 0344+239[23], [KPS2012] MWSC 0305[24]
- Topic's main category: Category:Pleiades[25]
- Commons gallery: Messier 45[26]
- Apparent magnitude: 1.6[27]
- Described by source: Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary[28], Small Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary[29], Bible Encyclopedia of Archimandrite Nicephorus[30], Russian translation of Lübker's Antiquity Lexicon[31], Encyclopedic Lexicon[32], Encyclopædia Britannica 11th edition[33], Meyers Konversations-Lexikon, 4th edition (1885–1890)[34], Star Lore of All Ages[35]
- Topic has template: Q25721143[36]
- Different from: Plejaderne[37]
- Mass: 800 solar mass[38]
- Radius: 7.5 light-year[39]
- Parallax: 7.364 milliarcsecond[40]
- Radial velocity: 5.65 kilometre per second[41]
- Metallicity: -0.01[42]
- Distance from Earth: 134.4 parsec[43]
- On focus list of Wikimedia project: Wikipedia:Vital articles/Level/4[44]
- Angular diameter: 110 arcminute[45]
- Right ascension: 56.7500 degree[46]
- Declination: 24.1167 degree[47]
- Epoch: J2000.0[48]
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Cultural Significance
Things named for Pleiades include Pledis Entertainment[49], a record label[50], in South Korea[51], founded in 2007[52], headquartered in Seoul[53]; Matariki[54], a festival[55], in New Zealand[56]; Subaru Telescope[57], an optical telescope[58], in United States[59], founded in 1997[60]; Order of the Pleiades[61], an order[62], in Iran[63], founded in 1957[64]; and Alexandrian Pleiad[65], a group of humans[66].
Why It Matters
Pleiades has Wikipedia articles in 30 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[67] Pleiades is known by 101 alternative names across languages and contexts.[68]
Entities named for Pleiades include Pledis Entertainment[49], a record label[50], in South Korea[51], founded in 2007[52], headquartered in Seoul[53]; Matariki[54], a festival[55], in New Zealand[56]; Subaru Telescope[57], an optical telescope[58], in United States[59], founded in 1997[60]; Order of the Pleiades[61], an order[62], in Iran[63], founded in 1957[64]; and Alexandrian Pleiad[65], a group of humans[66].