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Pleiades: References & Edit History

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major reference
- In star cluster: Open clusters
calendrical cycles
- In calendar: Earliest sources
- In calendar: The Mayan calendar
nature worship
- In nature worship: Stars and constellations
Pleione
- In Pleione
reflection nebula
- In reflection nebula
stellar populations
- In star: Estimates of stellar ages

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Type	Description	Contributor	Date
	Add new Web site: CiteSeerX - Brown dwarfs in the Pleiades (PDF).	Gloria Lotha	Dec 17, 2024
	Add new Web site: IOPscience - The Astrophysical Journal - The Distribution of Stellar Mass in the Pleiades.	Emily Rodriguez	Oct 22, 2024
	Add new Web site: Greek Legends and Myths - The Pleiades in Greek Mythology.	Grace Young	Sep 13, 2024
	Add new Web site: The Planets - The Pleiades Star Cluster Facts and Info.	Grace Young	Jun 20, 2024
	Add new Web site: CORE - On the Rising of the Pleiades.	Gloria Lotha	Dec 28, 2023
	Add new Web site: The Nine Planets - The Pleiades (Open Star Cluster) Facts.	Gloria Lotha	Oct 20, 2023
	Media added.	The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica	May 18, 2023
	Add new Web site: Live Science - 100,000-year-old story could explain why the Pleiades are called 'Seven Sisters'.	Aakanksha Gaur	Jul 11, 2022
	Add new Web site: Space.com - Pleiades: The Seven Sisters Star Cluster.	Gloria Lotha	Feb 13, 2020
	Changed distance of Pleiades from "about 430" to "about 440" light-years.	Erik Gregersen	Sep 15, 2017
	Article revised and updated.	Erik Gregersen	Feb 18, 2009
	Added new Web site: National Astronomy and Ionosphere Center - The Pleiades.	Kanchan Gupta	Apr 21, 2008
	Added new Web site: The Anglo-Australian Observatory - M45, the Pleiades and their reflection nebulae.	Kanchan Gupta	Apr 21, 2008
	Added new Web site: Students for the Exploration and Development of Space - Messier 45.	Kanchan Gupta	Apr 21, 2008
	Article revised and updated.	The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica	Mar 09, 2007
	Article added to new online database.	The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica	May 27, 1999