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	Pleione (28 Tauri)
		A Be star’s emissions come from a surrounding ring of gas that is somehow related to the star’s great rotation speed, Pleione spinning at least as fast as 329 km/s at the equator, 165 times faster than the Sun, giving it a rotation period of under half a day.
		The difference in Be star styles was once thought to be a matter of orientation, but Pleione puts the lie to the theory by switching among all three phases, normal B star, Be star, Be shell star, the changes taking place at intervals of 17 and 34 years.
		Pleione was seen to develop to a shell or envelope twice in the twentieth century: the first in 1938, which reached a peak brightness in 1945, then faded, and a second in 1972.
	www.daviddarling.info /encyclopedia/P/Pleione.html (408 words)

	* Pleione - (Astronomy): Definition
		Plein,`to sail', making Pleione "sailing queen" and her daughters "sailing ones." Ancient Greek sailors were cautioned to sail only during the months when the Pleiades were visible...
		A B8pe star (28 Tau), one of the brightest stars in the Pleiades, which developed an envelope or shell first observed in 1938.
		Sisters, this group was named by the Greeks for the seven daughters of Atlas and Pleione; the seventh Pleiad was, according to legend, lost or in hiding.
	en.mimi.hu /astronomy/pleione.html (437 words)

	Pleione (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
		It and Sterope are also the only dwarfs, stars that are fully fusing hydrogen in their cores and have not yet begun to evolve (the others either subgiants like Merope or giants like Alcyone).
		From its distance of 385 light years, Pleione shines with a luminosity 190 times that of the Sun, its radius 3.2 solar, its mass (from the luminosity and temperature) 3.4 solar.
		Gamma Cassiopeia, Pleione is one of the classic "Be" stars of the sky.
	www.astro.uiuc.edu /~kaler/sow/pleione.html (361 words)

	Pleione
		The star Pleione (Scientific Name 28 Tauri) is located at right ascension 3h 49.187m and declination 24° 8.200'.
		Pleione is a relatively dim star with a magnitude of 5.09.
		The spectral class of this star is B8Vpe.
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /stars/pleione.htm (55 words)

	Star Tales – Taurus
		Alcyone is the brightest star in the cluster.
		Ptolemy described this star as being common with the right foot of Auriga, the Charioteer, but now it is the exclusive property of Taurus.
		Near the tip of the bull’s right horn, the star Zeta Tauri, lies the remarkable Crab Nebula, the result of one of the most celebrated events in the history of astronomy – a stellar explosion, seen from Earth in AD 1054, that was bright enough to be visible in daylight for three weeks.
	www.ianridpath.com /startales/taurus.htm (1813 words)

	Identification of Spectral Lines - History of Shell Stars
		Pleione a bright shell star of the Pleiades star cluster in Taurus.
		Occasionally an early type emission-line star may exhibit a series of strong and sharp absorption lines, such a spectrum is described as a shell spectrum; a subclass of Be star defined by Paul Merrill in 1949.
		Three B-type stars HD 172694, HD 184279, HD 195407 which have sometimes shell spectra marked by absorption lines from the metastable levels of the neutral helium atom and the metallic lines are absent or weak presumably because the excitation required for the helium lines is sufficient to remove a second electron from the metallic atoms.
	laserstars.org /spectra/ShellStars.html (2052 words)

	Pendants at Wizard's Wares (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
		The 9-pointed star is the symbol of the Ninefold Goddess as the source of inspiration for poetry, dance, history, sacred songs, tragedy, love and music.
		Also called the Fairy or Elven Star, the 7-pointed star represents the Pleiadean Star System, known as the Seven Sisters, and was named after the daughters of Atlas and Pleione in Greek mythology.
		Known as the Faerie or Elven Star, the 7 pointed star is one of the entrances to the Faerie Realm -- the gateway to the Otherworld.
	www.wizardswares.com /pend.shtml (2233 words)

	JPL News -- Astronomers Measure Distance to Well-Known Star
		The cluster of stars known as the Pleiades is one of the most recognizable objects in the night sky, and for millennia has been celebrated in literature and legend.
		The star, along with "wife" Pleione and their daughters, the "seven sisters," are the principal stars of the Pleiades that are visible to the unaided eye, although there are actually thousands of stars in the cluster.
		The traditional method of measuring distance is by noting the precise position of a star and then measuring its slight change in position when Earth itself has moved to the other side of the sun.
	www.jpl.nasa.gov /releases/2004/26.cfm (763 words)

	* Sterope - (Astronomy): Definition
		Asterope is a relatively dim star with a magnitude of 6.
		Unlike their half-sisters the Hyades, 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...
		The seven "sisters" are Alcyone, Asterope (a double star), Electra, Maia, Merope, Taygeta and Celaeno; Atlas and Pleione are their "father" and "mother"...
	en.mimi.hu /astronomy/sterope.html (322 words)

	Pleione -- Encyclopædia Britannica
		star in the Pleiades, thought to be typical of the shell stars, so called because in their rapid rotation they throw off shells of gas.
		In 1938 sudden changes in the spectrum of Pleione were attributed to the ejection of a gaseous shell, which by 1952 had apparently dissipated.
		Pleione is a blue-white star of about the fifth magnitude.
	www.britannica.com /eb/article?tocId=9060396 (427 words)

	Open Clusters
		An additional Arabic number indicates whether the absolute magnitudes of all the stars of the cluster (1) are about the same, (2) are spread uniformly over a wider range, or (3) are distributed among a few very bright and a large number of weaker stars.
		A dust cloud which surrounds the stars, forming a faint reflection nebula around the brightest stars, is thought to have moved into the cluster recently, rather than being the remnant of the star forming cloud.
		The stars of NGC 752, and it's contemporaries NGC 2158 and NGC 7789, are metal-poor by a factor of 2.
	www.peripatus.gen.nz /Astronomy/OpeClu.html (2145 words)

	Segin (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
		The star's properties give it a mass 6 times that of the Sun, an age of 65 million years, and place it at the edge of giving up hydrogen fusion, if it has not done so already.
		For a B star, Segin is a slow rotator, only 19 kilometers per second (minimum) at the equator, 10 times solar, but far less than most of its class.
		These are a high-temperature extension of the "mercury- manganese" stars like Alpheratz and Alpha Tel, which bear wild peculiarities in their chemical compositions as a result of gravitational settling of some elements, radiative lofting of others.
	erectus.org /namedstars/segin.html (422 words)

	The Mystic Cauldron - Elven & Pleiadian Star Pendants Page 1
		The 7-pointed star (also called the Fairy or Elven Star) represents the Pleiadean Star System, known as the Seven Sisters, & was named after the daughters of Atlas & Pleione.
		The 7 pointed star is one of the entrances to the Faerie Realm...the gateway to the Otherworld.
		Known as the Fairy or Elven Star, the 7 pointed star is one of the entrances to the Faerie Realm, bestowing personal and spiritual transformation.
	www.mysticcauldron.com /elven_pendants.html (387 words)

	Star Badge (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
		According to Greek mythology, the main, visible stars are named for the seven daughters of "father" Atlas and "mother" Pleione: Alcyone, Asterope (a double star), Electra, Maia.
		That is the star Aldebaran and is the brightest star of the constellation Taurus.
		The brightest one is Alcyone, which is the third-brightest star of the Taurus constellation and incidentally the name Subaru gave the Japanese release of the Vortex.
	www.subaclub.com /StarBadge.htm (864 words)

	Pleiades -- Encyclopædia Britannica (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
		Alcyone is located 16 degrees south of the star Epsilon Persei, and is at its highest in the eastern sky during the evening hours of...
		The alpha, or brightest, star in the constellation Taurus, Aldebaran is visible from both the Northern and Southern hemispheres from late fall through late spring and is highest in the sky at a 10:00 PM observation on January 15.
		It is located 4 degrees northeast of the star Lambda Scorpii, between the bow of Sagittarius and the Scorpion's tail.
	www.britannica.com /eb/article?tocId=9060392 (853 words)

	Taurus (constellation) articles and news from Start Learning Now (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
		It sits large and prominent in the winter sky, between Aries to the west and Gemini to the east; to the north lie Perseus (constellation)Perseus and Auriga (constellation)Auriga, to the southwest Orion (constellation)Orion, and to the southeast Eridanus (constellation)Eridanus and Cetus.
		One of the few apparent magnitudefirst magnitude stars in the sky, the bright red Aldebaran, sits in the middle of this constellation.
		Behind Aldebaran lie the Hyades (star cluster)Hyades, the nearest distinct open star cluster, that with it form a V in the sky marking the bull's head.
	www.startlearningnow.com /Taurus%20(constellation)\|Tauri.htm (752 words)

	Atlas (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
		Among the wonders of the sky is the grouping in Taurus that western astronomers have long called the Pleiades, or "Seven Sisters." Never mind that only six are usually visible with the naked eye, the seventh had to be there to make up the set.
		NINE of the stars, however, are named, as both our star Atlas (number 27 in the Flamsteed list) and Pleione are included as well.
		B stars do not live very long, so the cluster must be young, only 100 or so million years old.
	www.astro.uiuc.edu /~kaler/sow/atlas.html (355 words)

	The Pleiades in reality... Pleiades star cluster \| Pleiade
		The Pleiades in reality… the Pleiades star cluster
		The cloud – IC 349 or Barnard's Merope Nebula – is illuminated by Merope in the Pleiades star cluster.
		The is an effect of the phenomenon of 'radiation pressure' due to the intense stellar radiation emitted by the nearby star, which acts differentially on the dust particles composing the cloud.
	www.pleiade.org /pleiades_03.html (2617 words)

	Messier Object 45
		Some of the Pleiades stars are rapidly rotating, at velocities of 150 to 300 km/sec at their surfaces, which is common among main sequence stars of a certain spectral type (A-B).
		As it is not only one, it is most certain that these stars are original cluster members and not all field stars which have been captured (a procedure which does not work effectively in the rather loose open clusters anyway).
		The only possible explanation seems to be that these WD stars were once massive so that they evolved fast, but due to some reason (such as strong stellar winds,mass loss to close neighbors, or fast rotation) have lost the greastest part of their mass.
	www.seds.org /messier/m/m045.html (1912 words)

	Alcyone.
		Called "The Central One", Alcyone is the central or main star and also the largest star of the Pleiades, or Seven Sisters; the seven stars which are situated on the shoulder blade of Taurus, the Bull.
		This cluster of stars were seen by some Romans as a "hen with her chicks", with Alcyone as "The Hen".
		The word Pleiades also derives from the sister's mythological mother, Pleione, a star that is close to this group.
	www.winshop.com.au /annew/Alcyone.html (1331 words)

	* Merope - (Astronomy): Definition (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
		There is little in the sky more attractive than the marvelous cluster of the Seven Sisters, the of, a bright compact, fairly young "open cluster" that is filled with bright stars of blue class B...
		Merope is a relatively dim star with a magnitude of 4.
		Merope was the only Pleiad to marry a mortal, and the star that she represents shines less bright than those which represent her sisters...
	www.mimihu.com /astronomy/merope.html (362 words)

	The Pleiades (M45) star cluster
		It consists of many bright, hot, young stars that were all formed at the same time around 100 million years ago within a large cloud of interstellar dust and gas.
		Alcyone is the brightest star in Pleiades star cluster, its visual magnitude is 2.86.
		Pleione is a variable star, is average magnitude is 5.09
	www.skyfactory.org /m45/m45.htm (367 words)

	Inner Sphere Atlas: System
		Colonized during the early exodus from Terra, Pleione became a stepping-stone to the stars beyond.
		Confederate forces were able to regain Pleione once the Sarna March collapsed as the result of the Marik-Liao invasion of 3057.
		During the Confederation's Xin Sheng movement, Pleione, along with Ningpo and Poznan, reaffirmed its allegiance to the Celestial Throne and House Liao.
	isatlas.teamspam.net /planet-detail.php?planet=7534663 (361 words)

	* Shell Star - (Astronomy): Definition
		A hot main-sequence star, usually of spectral class B-F, whose spectrum shows bright emission lines presumed to be due to a gaseous ring or shell surrounding the star.
		The star has an exceptionally large rotational velocity,...
		Principal stars are: Schedar - The Breast (Alpha Cassiopeiae), magnitude 2.2; Caph (Beta Cassiopeiae), magnitude 2.3; Gamma Cassiopeiae a shell star, variable, with mean magnitude 2.5; Ruchba - The Knee (Delta Cassiopeiae), magnitude 2.7...
	en.mimi.hu /astronomy/shell_star.html (159 words)

	Re: (meteorobs) Pleiades (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
		Map of the Pleiades Star Cluster M45 In Greek mythology, the Pleiades were seven sisters.
		However, only six stars are visible in the sky without a telescope.
		These legends seem to be confirmed by a scientific finding according to which a seventh star in the group of the Pleiades became extinct toward the end of the second millennium BC.
	www.meteorobs.org /maillist/msg19578.html (418 words)

	2map.htm
		He also was the first that drew the stars on a globe representing the sky as seen from the outside, instead of seen by an observer on earth.
		Dilyéhé is the name of the group of stars that are represented in the string figure in the hands of a Navajo woman
		This star group is only briefly visible in spring at near dawn rising and mid December just after dark.
	imaginarymuseum.org /MAP/2map.htm (703 words)

	Fantastic flying objects orbiting giant stars (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
		Distance from star is the fifth parameter, indicated in orange.
		Objects in the flying zoo around stars are transitory, illusive sometimes striking in standout, and they transfigure in tandems and trios as they orbit.
		Star names given in their original arabic are often not found in Dss.
	www.cosmicastronomy.com /flying.htm (5122 words)

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		The prototype star proves to be a more" "a complicated system than most of the Algol-type stars, i.e., compact triple system with separation of the components" "well under 0.1"".
		Although this star is an MK standard for class B1III, it is a variable, a multiple star, and is" "Beta C 2.94 - 3.06B.
		Capella is" "first star for which an orbit was determined from interferometer measures, by Anderson at Mt. Wilson in 1920.
	www.weasner.com /etx/autostar/names326tab.txt (11450 words)

	Pleione (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
		Variable star Pleione, 28 = BU Tauri, type Gamma Cassiopeiae, in the Pleiades (M45) in Taurus
		As this star rotates rapidly, its shape is that of an oblate spheroid instead of a sphere.
		This type-B star is rotating about 100 times faster (so rapidly it becomes flattened) than our sun and its radiation is so intense that a planet orbiting it at 93 million miles would be red hot.
	astronomy.nju.edu.cn /astron/Messier/pleione.html (245 words)

	Astronomers Measure Distance To Well-Known Star (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
		Atlas Indexes Stars That Live Fast, Die Young (January 14, 2002) -- Astronomers have produced a new spectral atlas of massive, hot stars in the Magellanic Clouds, small sister galaxies on the periphery of our galaxy, the Milky Way.
		The super star cluster known as 'Westerlund 1' is made...
		Star Cluster Baby Pictures Leave Astronomers Beaming (January 13, 2000) -- Peering deep into a distant galaxy, astronomers have obtained a glimpse of what may be the youngest massive star clusters ever observed.
	www.sciencedaily.com /releases/2004/01/040122084239.htm (946 words)

	The Pleiades M45: Stars and nebulae
		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.
		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.
	seds.lpl.arizona.edu /messier/more/m045_tab.html (319 words)

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