* Orion & Pleiades ( symphonic work ), 1984 piece for cello and orchestra by Toru Takemitsu

The first color-magnitude diagrams of open clusters were published by Ejnar Hertzsprung in 1911, giving the plot for the Pleiades and Hyades star clusters.

Clusters such as the Pleiades, Hyades and a few others within about 500 light years are close enough for this method to be viable, and results from the Hipparcos position-measuring satellite yielded accurate distances for several clusters.

Seven Sisters is the common name for the Pleiades, a star cluster named for mythological characters.

Within the text, they interpreted three definitive astronomical events: there was a new moon on the day of the slaughter ( as required for a solar eclipse ); Venus was visible and high in the sky six days before ; and the constellations Pleiades and Boötes were both visible at sunset 29 days before.

The Pleiades ( Krittika ) are particularly revered in Hindu mythology as the six mothers of the war god Murugan, who developed six faces, one for each of them.

Along with the Orion Nebula and the Praesepe cluster, Messier's inclusion of the Pleiades has been noted as curious, as most of Messier's objects were much fainter and more easily confused with comets — something that seems scarcely possible for the Pleiades.

Later work consistently argued that the Hipparcos distance measurement for the Pleiades was erroneous.

Recently, Francis and Anderson proposed that a systematic effect on Hipparcos parallax errors for stars in clusters biases calculation using the weighted mean, and gave a Hipparcos parallax distance of 126 pc, and photometric distance 132 pc based on stars in the AB Doradus, Tucana-Horologium and Beta Pictoris moving groups, which are similar in age and composition to the Pleiades.

Ages for star clusters can be estimated by comparing the Hertzsprung-Russell 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.

The nine brightest stars of the Pleiades are named for the Seven Sisters of Greek mythology: Sterope, Merope, Electra, Maia, Taygeta, Celaeno, and Alcyone, along with their parents Atlas and Pleione.

In Book 18 of the Iliad the stars of the Hyades appear along with the Pleiades, Ursa Major, and Orion on the shield that the god Hephaistos made for Achilles.

** Another name for Sterope ( Pleiad ), one of the Pleiades

*** Asterope ( star ) is one of the stars in the Pleiades star cluster, named for the mythical figure

The tradition which ascribed to her the invention of the hexameter, was by no means uniform ; Pausanias, for example, as quoted above, calls her the first who used it, but in another passage he quotes an hexameter distich, which was ascribed to the Pleiades, who lived before Phemonoe: the traditions respecting the invention of the hexameter are collected by Fabricius.

Matariki, the Māori language | Māori name for the Pleiades ( pictured ).

Similar words occur in most Polynesian languages, deriving from Proto-Polynesian * mataliki, meaning minute, small, and the use of the term for the Pleiades constellation is also ancient and has been reconstructed to Eastern Oceanic.

On December 17, 2011 another Soyuz was launched from Kourou carrying the French space agency's Pleiades 1 Earth imaging satellite, four ELISA electronic intelligence satellites, and the SSOT remote sensing satellite for the Chilean military.

* 17 December 2011-A Soyuz carrying the French space agency's Pleiades 1 Earth imaging satellite, four ELISA electronic intelligence satellites, and the SSOT remote sensing satellite for the Chilean military.

* Pleiades ( magazine ) or, Pleiades: A Journal of New Writing, magazine that publishes fiction, poetry, essays, and book reviews

However, the November 2008 release of the TOP500 list places the Blue Gene / L supercomputer behind the Pleiades supercomputer in NASA / Ames Research Center, the Jaguar supercomputer in Oak Ridge National Laboratory, and the IBM Roadrunner supercomputer in Los Alamos National Laboratory.

The Bee was founded in 1991 ; The Seneca in 1999 ; Isis in 2000 ; Pleiades in 2002 ; Sabliere in 2002 ; and La Vie in 2008.

Graham will be recognized for his meritorious service to baseball and will get the William J. Slocum Memorial Award.

The writers' Gold Tee Award will go to John McAuliffe of Plainfield, N. J., and Palm Beach, Fla., for his sponsorship of charity tournaments.

Just this April she was nominated for the seventh time for an Academy Award for her portrayal of Eleanor Roosevelt in `` Sunrise at Campobello ''.

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The Academy Award for Best Production Design recognizes achievement in art direction on a film.

The 1939 film Beau Geste is the only movie that features as many as four Academy Award winners for Best Actor in a Leading Role ( Gary Cooper, Ray Milland, Susan Hayward, Broderick Crawford ) prior to any of the actors receiving the Best Actor Award.

Category: Hugo Award for Best Novella winning works

Aztlan Underground were nominated for four Native American Music Award categories for the Nammys 2010.

In 1990, he accepted the Academy Award for Lifetime Achievement.

In 1980, van Vogt received a " Casper Award " ( precursor to the Canadian Aurora Awards ) for Lifetime Achievement .< ref >

Finney is the only actor to receive an Academy Award nomination for playing Poirot, though he did not win.

" Other prestigious architectural awards are the Aga Khan Award for Architecture, the Richard H. Driehaus Prize for Classical Architecture, the Alvar Aalto Medal ( Finland ), the Carlsberg Architecture Prize ( Denmark ), and the Governor General's Awards ( Canada ).

* Sidewise Award for Alternate History

* The Sidewise Award for Alternate History lists all the winners and nominees for the award since its inception and provides information for recommending works for consideration.

Cuarón shared an Academy Award nomination for Best Original Screenplay with co-writer and brother Carlos Cuarón.

* 2005: Alexander Korda Award for Best British Film ( Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban, nominated )

* 2011: Michael Balcon Award for Outstanding British Contribution to Cinema ( Harry Potter series, joined by J. K. Rowling, David Heyman, David Barron, David Yates and Mike Newell, shared with Harry Potter cast and crew )

* 1990: Lifetime Achievement Award from Guitar Player magazine.

Billboard magazine awarded him their Century Award, their " highest honor for distinguished creative achievement ", in December 1997.

* Game Developer magazine Front Line Award for Software Project Survival Guide ( 1997 )

In 2007 Nature ( together with Science magazine ) received the Prince of Asturias Award for Communications and Humanity.

It was originally published as a short story in 1983 in the American science fiction magazine Analog Science Fact & Fiction, winning the 1983 Nebula Award for best novelette and the 1984 Hugo Award in the same category.

Since 2008, zakzak magazine has awarded a Gravure Idol Award.

For this project, Stork received the 2005 " Aerospace Industry Award " in the Air Transport category from Flight International magazine.

At the end of the year, he was awarded the Q magazine Lifetime Achievement Award, presented to him by American musician Moby.

In 2005 the magazine received the National Magazine Award for General Excellence in the category of 500, 000 to 1, 000, 000 subscribers.

In May 2007, the magazine again won the National Magazine Award for General Excellence.

Populous is a computer game developed by Bullfrog in 1989 and is regarded by many as the first PC God game .< ref >< BR /> In 1991, Populous won the Origins Award for Best Military or Strategy Computer Game of 1990 as well as 1990 Computer Game of the Year in American video game magazine Video Games & Computer Entertainment.

This interchange received the Prize Bridge Award in the category of Grade Separation from Modern Steel Construction magazine in 1996.

For its efforts, Batterymarch won the " Dubious Achievement Award " from Pensions & Investments magazine in 1972.

Existing indie bands that were now able to enter the mainstream included more musically and emotionally complex bands including Modest Mouse ( whose 2004 album Good News for People Who Love Bad News reached the US top 40 and was nominated for a Grammy Award ), Bright Eyes ( who in 2004 had two singles at the top of the Billboard magazine Hot 100 Single Sales ) and Death Cab for Cutie ( whose 2005 album Plans debuted at number four in the US, remaining on the Billboard charts for nearly one year and achieving platinum status and a Grammy nomination ).

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In 1998, the band won two Brit Awards — winning Best British Group, appeared on the cover of Rolling Stone magazine in March, and in February 1999, " Bitter Sweet Symphony " was nominated for the Grammy Award for Best Rock Song.

In 2005, the magazine won a National Magazine Award for fiction.

However, Pohl never won the annual Hugo Award for his stewardship of Galaxy, winning three Hugos instead for its sister magazine, If.

When Ken Russell's adaptation of Tommy appeared as a feature film in 1975, Daltrey played the lead role, was nominated for a Golden Globe Award for " Best Acting Debut in a Motion Picture " and appeared on the cover of Rolling Stone magazine on 10 April 1975.

After two years Frederik Pohl took over as editor, and it was under Pohl that If achieved its greatest success, winning the Hugo Award for best professional magazine three years running from 1966 to 1968.

The circulation rose from 64, 000 in 1965 to 67, 000 in 1967 ; the modest 5 % increase was exceeded only by Analog among the other science fiction magazines, and If won the Hugo Award for best professional SF magazine three years running during this period.

She won Esquire magazine's New Star Award for 1947 as well as awards from Down Beat magazine continuously from 1947 through 1952, and from Metronome magazine from 1948 through 1953.