Merope Nebula (NGC1435) in Pleiades
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MEROPE (23 Tauri). There is little in the sky more attractive than the marvelous cluster of the Seven Sisters, the Pleiades of Taurus, a bright compact, fairly young "open cluster" that is filled with bright stars of blue class B.
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The nine brightest stars of the Pleiades are named for the Seven Sisters of Greek mythology: Sterope, Merope, Electra, Maia, Taygete, Celaeno and Alcyone, along with their parents Atlas and Pleione.
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 colorful light rays in the upper right point to Merope, but they are an artifact of the telescope. However, the parallel features that are reaching for the star, coming out of the nebula, are real, and were previously unknown to exist.
According to Greek mythology, Orion was in love with Merope, one of the Seven Sisters who form the Pleiades, but Merope would have nothing to do with him. Orion's tragic life ended when he stepped on Scorpius, the scorpion.
[7948] Merope is a blue-white subgiant classified as a Beta Cephei variable. [7957] Taygeta is another multiple system with a blue-white subgiant for the main component.
In his misadventure on the Island of Chios in the Aegean Sea, Orion abused or insulted his lover -- Merope -- the cherished daughter of Oenopian, the King of Chios.
A thick cloud of dust around the Pleiades star cluster glows brightly in this false-color infrared image from Spitzer Space Telescope. The stars are lighting up the dust cloud, known as the Merope Nebula, as they pass through it.
The Pleiades are, according to Greek mythology, the seven daughters of Atlas, the titan who holds up the sky, and the Oceanid named Pleione. The sisters are Alcyone, Maia, Electra, Taygeta, Celaeno, Merope and Sterope.
21-22 Tau Asterope is the combined name for Sterope I and Sterope II. 23 Tau Merope 27 Tau Atlas 28 Tau Pleione
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M78 and the Merope nebula in M45 (both reflection nebulae) did not improve at all with the OIII filter as expected, and finally the Rosette nebula was invisible from the city, even with the filter, probably due to the overwhelming light pollution.
 See also: Sky, Pleiades, Light, Cluster, Taurus
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