Pleiades (disambiguation)
The Pleiades are an open cluster of stars in the constellation Taurus.
Pleiades may also refer to:
- Pleiades (Greek mythology), seven sisters of Greek mythology
Geography
- Pleiades (volcano group), a group of volcanoes in Antarctica
- Les Pléiades, a mountain in Switzerland
Music
- Pléïades, a composition by Iannis Xenakis
- "Pleiades", a 1989 song by King's X from Gretchen Goes to Nebraska
Other uses
- Pleiades (arcade game), a 1981 arcade game produced by Tehkan and Centuri
- Pleiades (magazine), an American magazine of fiction, poetry, essays, and book reviews
- Pleiades (satellite), an Earth-observation satellite programme operated by CNES
- Pleiades (supercomputer), a supercomputer at NASA's Ames Research Center
- Pleiades (wine), a wine produced by Sean Thackrey
See also
- Bibliothèque de la Pléiade or Pléiade editions, the standard editions of major works of (mostly) French literature published by Éditions Gallimard
- Orion and Pleiades for Cello and Orchestra, a work by Toru Takemitsu
- La Pléiade, a group of 16th-century French Renaissance poets
- Pleiades in folklore and literature, interpretations and traditional meanings of the star cluster among various human cultures
- "Now the Great Bear and Pleiades", an aria from Britten's Peter Grimes
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