Pleiades: The history behind how the constellation got named seven sisters

February 8th, 2021

republicworld.com, Other, 05/02/2021
People have known about the Pleiades constellation from thousands of years. […] An astrophysicist, Ray Norris of the Western Sydney University (CSIRO), has often wondered about this – how cultures all across the world have consistently referred to this constellation with the number seven, with names like “Seven Sister”, “Seven Maidens” or “Seven Little Girls”, according to his interview with Live Science.

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