Pleiades

How To Use Pleiades In A Sentence

• The Pleiades are mentioned in Chinese annals in 2357 B.C. A Field Book of the Stars
• Yes, there is, and some people may not realise that yes, that there was an ancient constellation of the lyre, which was originally called the Lyre of the Pleiades.
• It looks almost like a cluster, and I have known unwary observers to confuse it with the Pleiades.
• The Pleiades star cluster is also called the Seven Sisters.
• There are three conspicuous clusters in the northern sky that are visible to the naked eye -- viz. the Pleiades in Taurus, the Great Cluster in the sword-handle of Perseus, and Praesepe in Cancer, commonly called the Beehive. The Astronomy of Milton's 'Paradise Lost'
• It is rather striking that when referring to the Pleiades, the Bible uses the verb “to bind,” as if the stars were linked together with threads—something that cannot be observed with the naked eye—and that in the next sentence it maintains precisely the opposite about the Orion. Modern Science in the Bible
• Here they would sit like bumps on a log until midnight, and then, when the constellation which we call the Pleiades came exactly overhead, the danger was over. St. Nicholas Magazine for Boys and Girls, Vol. 5, Nov 1877-Nov 1878 Scribner's Illustrated
• The Pleiades are approximately 440 light-years away and the Hyades are about one-third that distance: 150 light-years.
• The Pleiades is a nebulous cluster of stars, all contained within one degree of longitude, located on the shoulder of the Bull.
• In his videotaped lectures, Biltz focuses on a star called Arcturus, which is mentioned in the Old Testament Book of Job: "Which maketh Arcturus, Orion, and Pleiades, and the chambers of the south. ScienceBlogs Channel : Life Science