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    widefield view of the Pleiades showing the surrounding dust, image taken with 56 hours of total exposure time Australian Aboriginal astronomy § Seven Sisters...
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    S2CID 150307855. Baudouin, Marcel (1916). "La préhistoire des étoiles: Les Pléiades au Néolithique". Bulletins et Mémoires de la Société d'Anthropologie de...
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    The Pleiades (/ˈpliːədiːz, ˈpleɪ-, ˈplaɪ-/; Greek: Πλειάδες, Ancient Greek pronunciation: [pleːádes]), were the seven sister-nymphs, companions of Artemis...
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    of astronomy focuses on the contributions civilizations have made to further their understanding of the universe beyond earth's atmosphere. Astronomy is...
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    asterism in 2002. Australian Aboriginal astronomy Chinese constellation Nakshatra "An Etymological Dictionary of Astronomy and Astrophysics: asterism". Dictionary...
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  • names based on their shapes, just as traditional western astronomy does, such as the Pleiades, Orion and the Milky Way, with others, such as Emu in the...
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    Atlas (star) (category Pleiades)
    purely geometric distance to the binary star Atlas, a member of the Pleiades". Astronomy & Astrophysics. 425 (3): L45. arXiv:astro-ph/0408430. Bibcode:2004A&A...
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    Babylonian astronomy was the study or recording of celestial objects during the early history of Mesopotamia. The numeral system used, sexagesimal, was...
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  • Pleiades are the seven daughters of Pleione and Atlas even though the greatest part of his inspiration may come from the astronomy, as the Pleiades were...
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    constellation Aries. The Pleiades were closest to the Sun at vernal equinox around the 23rd century BC. In Babylonian astronomy, the constellation was listed...
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