Word: ple
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Alcyone, Asterope, Electra, Kelaine, Maia, Merope and Taygete were the seven daughters of Atlas and Pleïone. According to one Greek myth, the seven sisters were pursued so ardently by Hunter Orion that Zeus changed them into a constellation of stars, the Pleiades. One of the seven is dim because of mourning for a sister who married a mortal...
...variable star was reported last week by Harvard Observatory. The cluster is draped in a veil of diffuse nebulosity which may vary the brightness of certain stars by interposing streamers of varying thicknesses. Observations by Dr. William Alexander Calder disclosed that in a year the seventh Pleiad, now called Pleïone, had diminished by one-sixth of a magnitude in brightness. It cannot have been decreasing for very long at this rate, otherwise it would have been the brightest star in the sky less than a half century ago. But the fact of its variability does support the legend...