Astronomy and Space

Alcyone (star)

Alcyone , is a blue-white giant star and the brightest star in the Pleiades open cluster. At apparent magnitude 2.87, it is also the third-brightest star in the Taurus constellation. The star has the Bayer designation Eta Tauri, Latinized from η Tauri and abbreviated Eta Tau or η Tau. It is about 440 light-years distant.

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See also

• ▸Collinder catalogue
• ▸HMAS Perth (D 38)
• ▸243 Ida

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