How to Use Pleiades in a Sentence
Pleiades
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The familiar Pleiades can be seen at the left side of the image.
—Samantha Mathewson, Space.com, 15 May 2025
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Usefully, the Pleiades open star cluster will shine to the left of the pair.
—Jamie Carter, Forbes, 31 July 2022
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One rhyming couplet instructs a young man to get an adze, or ax, when the Pleiades are overhead.
—Kevin West, Travel + Leisure, 14 July 2025
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This is an open cluster of stars known as the Pleiades, or Seven Sisters.
—Dean Regas, The Enquirer, 11 Feb. 2024
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Matariki is deeply rooted in star lore, signaled by the rising of the Pleiades star cluster.
—Petrina Darrah, Wired, 2 Oct. 2021
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The Pleiades star cluster will appear to the lower right of the full moon, but it may be masked by the moon's brightness.
—Aliza Chasan, CBS News, 26 Nov. 2023
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At 444 light-years away, the Pleiades is one of the closest star clusters to Earth.
—Samuel Sanders, Smithsonian Magazine, 5 July 2024
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In fact, the Pleiades star cluster is one of my favorite sights when stargazing at home in Cleveland.
—Stephanie Vermillion, Outside Online, 13 Feb. 2025
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Saturn will glow in the sky to the right, and the sparkly Pleiades star cluster will be visible just to the pair’s left.
—Stephanie Vermillion, Travel + Leisure, 2 June 2025
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Taurus, with its orangey star Aldebaran and, above, The Pleiades, an open cluster of stars.
—Jamie Carter, Forbes, 23 Dec. 2024
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Jeff Cohen shot the image of the Pleiades cluster from his backyard over a four-hour period.
—Eric Berger, Ars Technica, 9 Nov. 2023
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Neither the Pleiades nor the Andromeda Galaxy fully fit in its view.
—PCMAG, 16 May 2024
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Venus will appear about three degrees above Aldebaran, while just above will be the shimmering Pleiades star cluster.
—Jamie Carter, Forbes.com, 7 July 2025
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Uranus is just below the Pleiades open star cluster, while Neptune is just to the upper-right of Saturn.
—Jamie Carter, Forbes.com, 21 Aug. 2025
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The crescent moon will appear to gobble up the Pleiades star cluster in the pre-dawn hours of July 20.
—Stephanie Vermillion, Travel + Leisure, 3 July 2025
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An open cluster of stars about 445 light-years from the solar system, the Pleiades looks fabulous with the naked eye.
—Jamie Carter, Forbes.com, 14 Aug. 2025
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One dense clump of stars seems to represent the Pleiades (and more accurately than the Lascaux cave painting).
—Cody Cottier, Discover Magazine, 13 Jan. 2023
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It will be positioned very close to the Pleiades, also known as M45, one of the most beautiful sights in the night sky.
—Jamie Carter, Forbes.com, 14 Aug. 2025
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Made in northern Germany, the gold-and-bronze artifact depicts the constellation of the Pleiades and the sun and moon.
—Jane Recker, Smithsonian Magazine, 8 Mar. 2022
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Some of these open clusters are pretty famous, such as the Pleiades cluster, also known as the Seven Sisters.
—ArsTechnica, 8 July 2025
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Binoculars will get your eyes on 100 or so stars in the Pleiades, also called the Seven Sisters.
—Jamie Carter, Forbes, 3 Mar. 2025
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In the winter, visitors are often treated to views of the Pleiades open star cluster and the Orion constellation.
—Evie Carrick, Travel + Leisure, 11 Sep. 2023
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Look for Jupiter and Uranus after sunset just below the Pleiades star cluster, and near the constellation Aries.
—Stephanie Vermillion, Travel + Leisure, 19 Apr. 2024
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Above, and a little to the right of Orion, is the constellation Taurus the Bull, home of the Pleiades star cluster.
—Mike Lynch, Twin Cities, 2 Feb. 2025
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The moon is in an almost six-year pattern of Pleiades occultations, with several more coming in 2025.
—Jamie Carter, Forbes, 6 Jan. 2025
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The moon will visit the Pleiades every month in 2025, but this is one of the most spectacular—and easiest to photograph.
—Jamie Carter, Forbes.com, 31 Mar. 2025
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Look to the east before sunrise on June 22 to catch the delicate form of the crescent moon shining with Venus alongside the Pleiades star cluster.
—Anthony Wood, Space.com, 21 June 2025
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In Greek and Roman mythology, Maia was the eldest of the Pleiades and was a fertility goddess.
—Ryan Brennan, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 13 Jan. 2025
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During the final week of April, the comet will move from near Triangulum to just above and to the right of the famous Pleiades star cluster by May 1.
—Joe Rao, Space.com, 11 Apr. 2025
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The trust that Gordon created was named Pleiades, for a set of sisters in Greek myth who had dalliances with Olympian gods and were immortalized as stars in the night sky.
—Evan Osnos, The New Yorker, 16 Jan. 2023
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