Definition: The Pleiades were the seven daughters of Atlas and the ocean nymph Pleione: Taygete, Merope, Maia, Electra, Celaeno, Asterope or Sterope, Alcyone or Halcyone. Today the Pleiades are better known as a star cluster, also known as the seven sisters.
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