Pleiades: References & Edit History

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Article History

Type Description Contributor Date
Add new Web site: IOPscience - The Astronomical Journal - The Metallicity of the Pleiades. May 18, 2026
Add new Web site: International Society for Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing - Geometric Calibration of Pleiades Location Model (PDF). Mar 25, 2025
Add new Web site: Royal Museums Greenwich - Stellar jewels: the Pleiades. Feb 15, 2025
Add new Web site: CiteSeerX - Brown dwarfs in the Pleiades (PDF). Dec 17, 2024
Add new Web site: IOPscience - The Astrophysical Journal - The Distribution of Stellar Mass in the Pleiades. Oct 22, 2024
Add new Web site: Greek Legends and Myths - The Pleiades in Greek Mythology. Sep 13, 2024
Add new Web site: The Planets - The Pleiades Star Cluster Β– Facts and Info. Jun 20, 2024
Add new Web site: University of Hawaii - eVols - On the Rising of the Pleiades (PDF). Dec 28, 2023
Add new Web site: The Nine Planets - The Pleiades (Open Star Cluster) Facts. Oct 20, 2023
Media added. May 18, 2023
Add new Web site: Live Science - 100,000-year-old story could explain why the Pleiades are called 'Seven Sisters'. Jul 11, 2022
Add new Web site: Space.com - Pleiades: The Seven Sisters Star Cluster. Feb 13, 2020
Changed distance of Pleiades from "about 430" to "about 440" light-years. Sep 15, 2017
Article revised and updated. Feb 18, 2009
Added new Web site: National Astronomy and Ionosphere Center - The Pleiades. Apr 21, 2008
Added new Web site: The Anglo-Australian Observatory - M45, the Pleiades and their reflection nebulae. Apr 21, 2008
Added new Web site: Students for the Exploration and Development of Space - Messier 45. Apr 21, 2008
Article revised and updated. Mar 09, 2007
Article added to new online database. May 27, 1999
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