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ATLANTIDES PLEIADES

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Originally appearing in Volume V21, Page 835 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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ATLANTIDES

PLEIADES  Or VERGILIAE, in astronomy, a
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group of stars situated in the constellation Taurus . They are supposed to be referred to in the Old Testament (
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Job. ix . 9, xxxviii . 31) . 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
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star is Alcyone (3rd magnitude); Plelone and
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Atlas are also of the 3rd magnitude .

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