Pleione
A B8pe star (28 Tau), one of the brightest stars in the Pleiades, which developed an envelope or shell first observed in 1938.
Nine of the stars carry ancient Greek proper names, those of the seven maidens plus that of Atlas himself and of the sisters' mortal mother, Pleione.
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.
In mythology the Pleiades were the seven daughters of Atlas and the oceanid Pleione, after whom they are named.
The legends in Greek Mythology have it that they were seven sisters, the daughters of Atlas and Pleione. One day whilst walking in the woods, the great hunter Orion lay eye upon them and started chasing them.
Other stars in this class include zeta Tau and BU Tau ("Pleione"), mu Cen, lambda Pav, and epsilon Cap.
Iota Cas is an alpha CVn type variable: 4.45 to 4.53 every 1.74 days.
Omicron Cas is a gamma Cas type variable, ranging from 4.5 to 4.62.
Pleione 28 Tauri - see Pleiades
Polaris Alpha Ursae Minoris
Polaris Australis Sigma Octantis
Pollux Beta Geminorum
Porrima Gamma Virginis
Praecipua 46 Leonis Minoris
Procyon Alpha Canis Minoris
Propus Eta Geminorum
Proxima Centauri Alpha Centauri C ...
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.
The Greeks believed these were the Seven Sisters, daughters of Atlas and Pleione. It was told that they asked Zeus to place them in the sky to escape Orion, who was desperately pursuing them.
[7983] Pleione is a blue-white dwarf classified as a Gamma Cassiopeiae type variable star.
Known as the Seven Sisters, this group was named by the Greeks for the seven daughters of Atlas and Pleione; the seventh Pleiad was, according to legend, lost or in hiding.
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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This group is particularly rich in bright stars, and is full of nebulosity, but there are fewer faint stars than in equal areas of the surrounding sky; the central star is Alcyone (3rd magnitude); PleIone and Atlas are also of the 3rd magnitude.
 See also: Taurus, Sky, Pleiades, Constellation, Atlas
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