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To: Steve Van Doorn; numberonepal
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Local_Interstellar_Cloud

The Solar System is located within a structure called the Local Bubble, a low-density region of the galactic interstellar medium.[5] Within this region is the Local Interstellar Cloud (LIC), an area of slightly higher hydrogen density. It is estimated that the Solar System entered the LIC within the past 10,000 years.[6] It is uncertain whether the Sun is still inside of the LIC or has already entered a transition zone between the LIC and the G cloud.[3][6][7] A recent analysis estimates the Sun will completely exit the LIC in no more than 1900 years.[8]

Vergiliea

Vergĭlĭae: ārum, f. vergo, I the constellation of the seven stars, that rises at the end of spring, the Pleiades, Cic. N. D. poët. 2, 44, 112; Auct. B. Afr. 47; Isid. Orig. 3, 70; cf. Fest. p. 372 Müll. >

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pleiades

The name of the Pleiades comes from Ancient Greek: Πλειάδες.[14] It probably derives from plein ("to sail") because of the cluster's importance in delimiting the sailing season in the Mediterranean Sea: "the season of navigation began with their heliacal rising".[15] However, in mythology the name was used for the Pleiades, seven divine sisters, the name supposedly deriving from that of their mother Pleione and effectively meaning "daughters of Pleione". In reality, the name of the star cluster almost certainly came first, and Pleione was invented to explain it.[16]

Good night!

1,655 posted on 04/05/2023 9:29:00 PM PDT by Pete from Shawnee Mission ( )
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To: Pete from Shawnee Mission

Pleiades - I always seem to see more than 7 major stars there. I’ll have to dig up just which ones are considered the “7 sisters”. Also, the nebulosity isn’t normally visible in small to medium refractor telescopes. I’ll have to look through something larger to see if I can see it.

Now, astrophotography allows a lot of things to be see that we don’t normally view with mere optical equipment.


1,712 posted on 04/06/2023 7:16:00 AM PDT by meyer (FBI = KGB for the DNC; IRS = Gestapo)
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