Image: Pleiades Elihu Vedder. jpg | The Pleiades ( 1885 )

The biblical Book of Job ( dating to the 6th to 4th century BC ) also makes reference to a number of constellations, including " bier ", " fool " and " heap " ( Job 9: 9, 38: 31-32 ), rendered as " Arcturus, Orion and Pleiades " by the KJV, but ` Ayish " the bier " actually corresponding to Ursa Major.

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

However, in 1918 the Dutch-American astronomer Adriaan van Maanen was able to measure the proper motion of stars in part of the Pleiades cluster by comparing photographic plates taken at different times.

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.

The Pleiades ( star cluster ) | Pleiades, an open cluster dominated by hot blue stars surrounded by reflection nebulosity.

One of the few star groups mentioned in the Bible ( Job 9: 9 ; 38: 32 ; — Orion and the Pleiades being others ), Ursa Major was also pictured as a bear by the Jewish peoples.

Eventually this function became denoted by the Pleiades.

Ames operates one of the world ′ s fastest supercomputers, Pleiades, which will be further enhanced and is scheduled to reach 10 petaflops of processing power by 2012.

Ultimately astronomers ' understanding of the age and future evolution of the universe is influenced by their knowledge of the distance to the Pleiades.

Yet some authors argue that the controversy over the distance to the Pleiades discussed below is a red herring, since the cosmic distance ladder can ( presently ) rely on a suite of other nearby clusters where consensus exists regarding the distances as established by Hipparcos and independent means ( e. g., the Hyades, Coma Berenices cluster, etc.

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.

Also, like most open clusters, the Pleiades will not stay gravitationally bound forever, as some component stars will be ejected after close encounters and others will be stripped by tidal gravitational fields.

In Greek mythology, King Oenomaus ( or Oinomaos, Oenamaus ) of Pisa, the father of Hippodamia, was the son of Ares, either by the naiad Harpina ( daughter of the river god Phliasian Asopus, the armed ( harpe ) spirit of a spring near Pisa ) or by Sterope, one of the Pleiades, whom some identify as his consort instead.

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.

In Aztec mythology, maize ( which was called Cintli in Nahuatl, the Aztec spoken language ) was brought to this world by Quetzalcoatl and it is associated with the group of stars known commonly today as the Pleiades.

Karttikeya or Skanda, the leader of the heavenly armies, who was supposed to have been fostered by the six Knittikas or Pleiades ; and Ganesha ( lord of troops ), the elephant-headed god of wisdom, and at the same time the leader of the dii minorum gentium.

The Mapuche called the Pleiades Ngauponi which in the vicinity of the we tripantu ( mapuche new year ) will disappear by the west, lafkenmapu or ngulumapu, peering at dawn to the East, a few days before the birth of new life in nature.

Heliacal rising of Ngauponi, i. e. appearance of the Pleiades by the horizon over an hour before the Sun aproximately 12 days before the winter solstice announced we tripantu.

While meditating in a park in BuSab headquarters McKie is mentally contacted by the Caleban Fannie Mae, a female member of a species of unparalleled power from another dimension whose visible manifestation in this universe is the star Thyone in the Pleiades cluster

Developed with John Ackerman of the University of Minnesota and piloted by Jean Piccard in 1937 in Rochester, Minnesota, the first multi-celled balloon was called The Pleiades and was made of 98 latex rubber balloons.

Drawings of the Moon and the Pleiades ( star cluster ) | Pleiades from Hooke's Micrographia

Animation ( temporarily disabled ; see Talk: Pleiades # Animated stereo image needs " repair " | Talk page ) of proper motion in 400, 000 years ( cross-eyed viewing Image: Stereogram guide cross-eyed. png | 10px )

A Spitzer Space Telescope | Spitzer image of the Pleiades in infrared, showing the associated dust ( NGC 1435 | Merope Nebula ).

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

Image: Nebra-1. jpg | 1 ) On the left the full moon, on the right the waxing moon, and between and above, the Pleiades

Comet Machholz appears to pass near the Pleiades ( star cluster ) | Pleiades cluster in early 2005.

The location of the Pleiades in the constellation Taurus ( constellation ) | Taurus

it has been made far more difficult by what the Belgians have done, or failed to do, in the Congo since 1885.

Benevolent and sympathetic in disposition, he won the affection of his people by fearlessly visiting districts ravaged by cholera or devastated by earthquake in 1885.

On 11 December 1885, after a speech by Lord Aberdeen, Lady Aberdeen unveiled a bronze statue and plaque of Alexander Selkirk outside a house on the site of Selkirk's original home on the Main Street of Lower Largo, Fife, Scotland.

The credit for detecting its value belongs to Gaston Paris, although his edition ( 1897 ) was partially anticipated by the editors of the Monumenta Germaniae Historica, who published some selections in the twenty-seventh volume of their Scriptores ( 1885 ).

Two Aegean vases were found at Sidon in 1885, and many fragments of Aegean and especially Cypriot pottery have been found during recent excavations of sites in Philistia by the Palestine Fund.

The island first attracted the notice of archaeologists by the remarkable archaic Greek bronzes found in a cave on Mount Ida in 1885, as well as by epigraphic monuments such as the famous law of Gortyna ( also called Gortyn ).

* 1885 – American sharpshooter Annie Oakley was hired by Nate Salsbury to be a part of Buffalo Bill's Wild West.

Accrington was first represented nationally after the Redistribution of Seats Act 1885 after the 1885 general election by Accrington ( UK Parliament constituency ).

After appeals by the Batswana leaders Khama III, Bathoen and Sebele for assistance, the British Government on 31 March 1885 put " Bechuanaland " under its protection.

Lured by Austria-Hungary's promises for territorial gains from Bulgaria ( in return for concessions in the Western Balkans ), Milan IV declared war on Bulgaria on 14 November 1885.

Although the name Chordata is often attributed to William Bateson ( 1885 ), it was already in common use in by 1880.

In 1885, an investigation by the Allison Commission exonerated Peirce, but led to the dismissal of Superintendent Julius Hilgard and several other Coast Survey employees for misuse of public funds.

In 1885, the first steel-framed high-rise building, the Home Insurance Building, rose in the city as Chicago ushered in the skyscraper era, which would then be followed by many other cities around the world.

These first seven Carmichael numbers, from 561 to 8911, were all found by the Czech mathematician Václav Šimerka in 1885 ( thus preceding not just Carmichael but also Korselt, although Šimerka did not find anything like Korselt's criterion ).

In 1885 the Central Pacific Railroad was leased by the Southern Pacific Company.

Most modern translators take as their model the 1885 translation by John Ormsby.

The Triumph of Titus, by Sir Lawrence Alma-Tadema ( 1885 ), depicting the Flavian family during the triumphal procession of 71.

The first important frontier dispute was the Panjdeh crisis of 1885, precipitated by Russian encroachment into Central Asia.

** Eros and Psyche by Robert Bridges ( 1885 )

An 1885 ABC-book in Võro written by Johann Hurt: " Wastne Võro keeli ABD raamat "

Sheep farming was then introduced, taking over from the cattle trade in the 1870s and becoming self-supporting by 1885.