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	Merope - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Merope, one of the Pleiades, she married a mortal, Sisyphus, and was thus the faintest star in the star cluster that bears their name.
		Merope, one of the Oceanids, a daughter of Oceanus and Tethys, mother of Phaeton by Helios or Clymenus
		Merope, foster mother of Oedipus, wife of Polybus
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Merope (230 words)

	Dark Skies- Sandoval Signpost
		Out of the countless stars in the cluster, only nine are named: Taygate, Celano, Electra, Maia, Asterope, Merope, Alcyone, Pleone, and Atlas.
		In Greek mythology, Taygate, Celano, Electra, Maia, Asterope, Merope, and Alcyone are the daughters of Pleone and Atlas, half sisters of Hyades.
		The Pleiades are classified as an open star cluster with thousands of stars associated with it.
	www.sandovalsignpost.com /jan03/html/dark_skies.html (230 words)

	Honolulu Star-Bulletin Hawaii News
		One little piece of cloud happens to be close to the bright Pleiades star Merope, which is reflecting light off the black clouds like a flashlight beam, Herbig said.
		The same phenomenon is at work with Merope and the interstellar cloud as occurs with comet tails, he explained.
		University of Hawaii astronomers have detected the destruction of a dark interstellar cloud by one of the brightest stars in the Pleiades cluster.
	starbulletin.com /2000/12/26/news/story6.html (594 words)

	Pleiades Open Cluster M45
		The major stars bear the names of the sisters: Alcyone, Asterope (a double star), Electra, Maia, Merope, Taygeta and Celaeno.
		Long exposure photos under dark skies show blue reflection nebulae around these stars (especially Merope).
		The Pleiades (pronounced PLEE-uh-deez) stars have been known since ancient times.
	www.djgares.com /id58.html (594 words)

	The Pleiades, M45
		The brightest star in the Pleiades is a B-type star, Alcyone, with approximately one thousand times the luminosity of the Sun and ten times the size.
		i) Alcyone is located at the heart of the cluster ii) The Pleiades are reported to have a faint nebulosity, blue in color, caused by reflecting light of the stars and by scattering of blue light by interstellar particles of the nebula.
		I had previously read that it was very difficult, even with a large telescope, unless observing under an exceptionally dark-sky, to see the nebula and that it was brightest around Merope.
	www.astro.ufl.edu /~bruno/ProjectFinal/node4.html (381 words)

	MuggleNet Name Origins
		Since her parents were angered they made her star, Merope, weakest in the Pleiades constellation.
		Additionally, Merope was a member of the Pleiades sisters (nymphs) and was shamed eternally for marrying a mortal (Sisyphus).
		Alphard - Perhaps derived from the dominant star in the constellation Alpha Hydra, the Water Serpent (a Syltherin reference?).
	www.mugglenet.com /books/name_origins.shtml (4223 words)

	Online Encyclopedia and Dictionary - Pleiades (star cluster)
		The nine brightest stars of the Pleiades are named for the Seven Sisters of Greek mythology: Asterope, Merope, Electra, Maia, Taygete, Celaeno and Alcyone, along with their parents Atlas and Pleione.
		Ages for star clusters can be estimated by comparing the H-R diagram for the cluster with theoretical models of stellar evolution, and using this technique, ages for the Pleiades of between 75 and 150 million years have been estimated.
		It is believed that rather than being individual low to intermediate mass stars, the progenitors of the white dwarfs must have been high mass stars in binary systems.
	fact-archive.com /encyclopedia/Pleiades_(star_cluster) (4223 words)

	Queen Slytherin - Facts about Voldemorts Mother
		Merope is the fifth brightest star of the Pleiades, a cluster of stars in the constellation of Taurus.
		According to myth, Merope was a minor goddess who fell in love with a mortal and later regretted her decision, and dimmed herself to hide her shame from her sisters.
		Though the Gaunts were at one time very wealthy, the family fortune was squandered generations before Merope and Morfin's time, so that they and their father lived in squalid poverty.
	www.slytherin.us /Queen_Slytherin.php (500 words)

	HPL: The Gaunt Family
		Merope's father is extremely abusive to her and derisively calls her a "Squib" (and other dreadful things).
		Merope went to London, but was so destitute she sold her priceless gold locket to Caractacus Burke of Borgin and Burke's for a meager 10 galleons.
		An unrelated Merope was a Queen of Corinth and Oedipus' foster mother.
	www.hp-lexicon.org /wizards/gauntfamily.html (811 words)

	SPACE.com -- Stars and Space Clouds in 'Demolition Derby'
		The star Merope is in the Pleiades star cluster and is veiled by gas from at least one cloud that the cluster is passing through.
		The easy-to-find Pleiades star cluster is in the midst of what astronomers describe as a three-car cosmic pile-up as the bright stars slam into not one but two interstellar clouds of gas.
		The cluster is known to many skywatchers as the Seven Sisters for the seven stars visible with the naked eye under dark-sky conditions.
	www.space.com /scienceastronomy/pleiades_crash_031113.html (811 words)

	The Pleiades M45: Stars and nebulae
		The star Maia (20 Tauri) was subject to speculation when Otto Struve brought up the hypothesis that it might be the representative of a new type of variables of spectral type B7-A3 near-main sequence stars, of some ours period and small amplitudes.
		The bright stars and associated nebulosities in the Pleiades star cluster M45
		Star letter or number; "eta" is "eta Tauri", "27" is "27 Tauri", etc.
	www.obspm.fr /messier/more/m045_tab.html (811 words)

	lab12
		Their daughters are Alcyone, Electra, Celaeno, Maia, Merope, Taygeta and Asterope (which is a binary system, with individual stars named Asterope I and Asterope II).
		We will compare the temperatures and luminosities of many stars in the Pleiades cluster, known colloquially as ``The Seven Sisters.'' These stars were formed from the same cloud of gas at the same time, and we will see what can be learned from an HR diagram of the Pleiades.
		For the ten stars labeled on the image on the first page, please write on the image a number beside each star, indicating the row number of that star.
	astro.sci.uop.edu /~harlow/teaching/astron03/lab12 (811 words)

	* Celaeno - (Astronomy): Definition
		the names of all seven Pleiades are assigned to stars in the cluster: Alcyone, Asterope (also known as Sterope), Celaeno, Electra, Maia, Merope and Taygete.
		History of the star: One of the Pleiades or Seven Sisters.
		Six stars are easily visible to the naked eye—Alcyone (the brightest), Electra, Celaeno, Sterope, Maia, and Taygete.
	www.mimihu.com /astronomy/celaeno.html (811 words)

	SPACE.com -- Star Strips Dust from Cloud in New Hubble Image of Barnard's Merope Nebula
		The nebula and the star are in the Pleiades star cluster, easily visible to the naked eye on a clear winter evening.
		The nebula, filled with dust particles of different sizes, is drifting past the star at a relative speed of about 6.8 miles (11 kilometers) per second.
		The nearly straight lines pointing toward the star, which is out of view in the upper right, are the streams of larger particles still zooming toward the star.
	www.space.com /scienceastronomy/astronomy/hubble_nebula_001206.html (730 words)

	The 7 Sisters of the Pleiades - THE BIG DIPPER
		The stars of the Pleiades are not visible at any time of the night during this time of the year due to their close proximity to the Sun.
		One scholar, named Brinkley presumed that the stars mentioned here were those of Taurus and Scorpio, and that these were the cardinal constellations of spring and autumn in Job's time, calculated by the precession of equinoxes, the time of Job to be 818 years after the Deluge and 184 years before Abram.
		The tiny star Alcor is a small dog named "Hold Tight." In autumn when the Dipper is low to the horizon the blood from the arrow wounds drips on the trees and turns them red and brown.
	www.greatdreams.com /pleiades/7sisters.htm (730 words)

	Pleiades (star cluster) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The nine brightest stars of the Pleiades are named for the Seven Sisters of Greek mythology: Asterope, Merope, Electra, Maia, Taygete, Celaeno and Alcyone, along with their parents Atlas and Pleione.
		Ages for star clusters can be estimated by comparing the H-R diagram for the cluster with theoretical models of stellar evolution, and using this technique, ages for the Pleiades of between 75 and 150 million years have been estimated.
		Green squares indicate the seven optically brightest stars.
	www.wikipedia.org /wiki/Pleiades_%28star_cluster%29 (2119 words)

	DeepSky
		The Seven Sisters are Alcyone, Asterope (a double star), Electra, Maia (NGC-1432), Merope (NGC-1435), Taygeta and Celaeno.
		The stars are blurred because of the comet's speed during the 10-minute exposure.
		The Horsehead Nebula is located 1,600 lightyears away near the eastern star of Orion's belt (zeta Orionis, the brightest star in the picture) in the Winter sky.
	home.woh.rr.com /brettland/darkside/deepsky/index.html (2119 words)

	Kick Back & Stitch - Star Gazing: the Pleiades
		One day the great hunter Orion saw the Pleiades - or maybe it was just Merope - liked what he saw and started a pursuit that lasted 7 years.
		Zeus finally answered their prayers, turned them into doves and placed them among the stars.
		When Orion was later killed he was also placed in the heavens behind the Pleiades where he could continue the chase.
	members.aol.com /CustomHous/charts/KBS/ThePleiades.html (2119 words)

	THE 7 RISHIS - AULD LANG SYNE
		The seven stars being called the Rishis, the Circle so assumed was called the line of the Rishis.
		Arundhati was the only one that remained with her husband as the star Alcor.
		According to one story, one of the Pleiades, Merope deserted her sisters because she was ashamed of having a mortal husband, who also happened to be a criminal.
	www.greatdreams.com /sacred/rishis.htm (2119 words)

	OMOS-SO-Matrix-Reach4theStars-Pleiades
		This cluster is also known as the "Seven Sisters" who, in greek mythology, were the daughters of Atlas and Pleione and were name: Alcyone, Asterope (a double star), Electra, Maia, Merope, Taygeta and Celaeno.
		Thought to be left over matter from the formation of the stars in the cluster the cluster and the nebulae have different radial velocities suggesting that the nebulae is unrelated to the cluster and is just crossing the cluster.
		The blue color of the cluster is the result of a reflection nebulae (gas and dust cloud) with glows from the light of the stars in the cluster.
	www.profiledesigninc.com /OMOS-SO-Matrix-Reach4theStars-Pleiades.html (2119 words)

	Taurus Individual Degrees · Astrological definition of Taurus Individual Degrees · Astrology Encyclopedia
		A greenish yellow star; the brightest of the Pleiades, representing one of the seven daughters of the nymph Pleione, by Atlas, who by Neptune became the mother of Hyreus.
		The names of the other six are Maia, Electra, Taygeta, Sterope (or Asterope), Celano, and the invisible, or "lost" one, Merope, who concealed herself from shame at having loved a mortal.
		An orange, emerald and blue binary or ternary star in left foot of Andromeda.
	www.astrologyweekly.com /dictionary/taurus-individual-degrees.php (2119 words)

	Encyclopedia of Astronomy and Astrophysics » M45
		In Greek mythology these represent Pleione and her daughters with Atlas: Alcyone, Asterope (a double star), Electra, Maia, Merope,...
		The Pleiades are sometimes referred to as the `Seven Sisters' since that is the number of stars normally visible to the naked eye.
	dx.doi.org /10.1888/0333750888/6045 (2119 words)

	Puzzles & Riddles: Which Witch?
		Merope is the name of a star, one of the faintest.
		In Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince, Merope Gaunt is a character, and a witch.
		Side means "pomegranate" and is considered to be the same as Persephone, daughter of Demeter who was taken to the underworld by Hades.
	www.experts-exchange.com /Miscellaneous/Puzzles_Riddles/Q_21498764.html (1667 words)

	SPACE.com -- Stars and Space Clouds in 'Demolition Derby'
		The star Merope is in the Pleiades star cluster and is veiled by gas from at least one cloud that the cluster is passing through.
		The easy-to-find Pleiades star cluster is in the midst of what astronomers describe as a three-car cosmic pile-up as the bright stars slam into not one but two interstellar clouds of gas.
		The cluster is known to many skywatchers as the Seven Sisters for the seven stars visible with the naked eye under dark-sky conditions.
	www.space.com /scienceastronomy/pleiades_crash_031113.html (531 words)

	Skylights: Taurus, the Bull
		The brightest stars in the Pleiades are the so-called Seven Sisters from Greek mythology: Alcyone, Atlas, Electra, Maia, Merope, Taygeta, and Celaeno.
		Lying at a distance of 130 light years, the Hyades (Taurus's face) is the second closest star cluster to the Earth.
		The primary star is a subgiant; the companion, a red dwarf.
	www.craigmont.org /taurus.htm (417 words)

	An evening at Fremont Peak -- the back door to Virgo
		I found 5th-magnitude 11 Coma Bernices -- relatively isolated in a star-poor area east of Leo and south of the Coma star cluster, and verified that it was the right star by noting bright M85 only about a degree to the east.
		More than one person remarked unprompted that there appeared to be nebulosity around several other Pleiades stars in the field, and we all bewailed the difficulty of making sure that circularly symmetric glow about a star is really nebulosity and not dew or halation within the eye.
		The Merope nebula is asymmetric, which makes it easy to confirm.
	observers.org /reports/95.04.02.html (522 words)

	GALAXY AND UNIVERSE SLIDES
		Star Merope in the Pleiades cluster in Taurus.
		Nova Persei (1901); Shows expanding nebulosity surrounding star.
		Kruger 60 A and B, and its distant optical companion C. Orbit of Kruger 60 B. Barnard's Star.
	info.phys.uvic.ca /dbr/resman/galaxy_and_universe.html (522 words)

	Pleiades
		The seven "sisters" are Alcyone, Asterope (a double star), Electra, Maia, Merope, Taygeta and Celaeno; Atlas and Pleione are their "father" and "mother".
		This cluster also includes over 500 dimmer stars spread over an area four times wider than the Moon.
		The Pleiades is easily visible with the naked eye.
	www.seds.org /billa/twn/m45x.html (50 words)

	Pleiades Star Cluster and Nebula (M45)
		The portion of the Pleiades (m45) around Merope and its nebulosity (NGC1435).
		The cluster is composed of very young stars (about 100 million years old) and is located about 380 light years away.
		Images taken with TEC-140 Telescope mounted on Losmandy G11 mount.
	tas.digitalastro.net /Thru%20The%20Eyepiece/NGC1435.html (70 words)

	Aquamoonlight Astrology - Fixed Stars in Astrology
		The cluster consists of 7 small stars (Electra, Celaeno, Taygeta, Maia, Merope, Asterope and Alcyone) with Alcyone being the central star and known as the star of the weeping sisters.
		The stars were known as "fixed" as they didn't appear to move in the same way as the planets do, which are also known as the "wandering" stars.
		Some fixed stars are more often taken into account than others are as they are near the ecliptic, such as the four Royal stars.
	www.aquamoonlight.co.uk /fixedstars.html (711 words)

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