With the unaided eye, most people count 6 stars in the Pleiades star cluster, not 7. With apair of binocularsor a telescope, you will see many more stars in the cluster. Common Name:The Pleiades Object Type:Open cluster Cataloged:Messier 45 (M45) Other Names:Seven Sisters, Subaru Const...
What excites astronomers about Betelgeuse is it will one day go supernova, which is sure to be a spectacular event that people on Earth will be able to see. However, the exact date of when that might happen remains unknown. Rigel: Also known as Beta Orionis, and located between 700 and...
As one of the nearest star clusters to Earth and the most obvious star cluster in the night sky, the Pleiades does not require any special equipment to view. However, while most people see six stars upon first glancing up at the Pleiades, observing the cluster in dark skies and allowing ...
Miss Clerke, in a charming and instructive chapter in herSystemoftheStarswhich should be read by every star-lover, tells us that: {Page 401} With November, the “Pleiad-month,” many primitive people began their year; and on the day of the midnight culmination of the Pleiades, November 17...
“…in the Egyptian Book of the Dead we find: ‘… The Osiris, the scribe Ani, whose word is truth, saith:- I flew up out of primeval matter … I am Yesterday of the Four Quarters of the Earth, and the Seven Uraei, who came in to being in the Eastern land …’ There are num...
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A related theme is the representation of the Pleiades as a group of people (again, most often children) who have fled to the sky world to escape some sort of harm on Earth. Besides being seen as a cluster of people, some native mythologies represented the Pleiades as a group of animals...
The evening of June 23, with a house and front porch full of people, the children, bored, asked to light sparklers. I stood on our bottom front porch step and lit them, over and over, withfamily all around. I noticed Sophie, her face set tight in concentration, waving her sparklers ...
some labors came and started doing their work on this under-constructed house. I don’t talk to people unnecessarily but if they want something I always tries to help them as much possible ways as I can. Some more labor came later in the morning and they started for preparing for the wo...
“Jews” from every part of the world in a final frantic thrust to “gather ALL Jews home?” Jews from Ethiopia are being gathered even against their will and yet the gathering goes on in frantic measure—how can tiny Israel house and feed the hundreds of thousands of people ...