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I've always enjoyed the mythology behind the constellations in our skies. Beautiful image shared tonight, thank you, Robert. I always look forward to the closing astronomy image(s) in your newsletters. Such a nice respite from the "news" of tffg and the GOP.

Per Wikipedia,

"The Pleiades [...] were the seven sister-nymphs, companions of Artemis, the goddess of the hunt. Together with their sisters, the Hyades, they were called the Atlantides, Dodonides, or Nysiades, nursemaids and teachers of the infant Dionysus. The Pleiades were thought to have been translated to the night sky as a cluster of stars, the Pleiades, and were associated with rain."

More details here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pleiades_(Greek_mythology)

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JustRaven, are you familiar with Robin Williamson's masterpiece, The Five Denials on Merlyn's Grave? If not, it's a spoken-word poem, charting the mythological and factual history of the British Isles. In the 1st denial, he references the Pleiades. It's well worth taking a 15 minute break from our current troubles to listen. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iuRUVzqAfgk

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