[Credit & Copyright: Robert Gendler]
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Why do you think it’s 400 light years away?
The Pleiades is a good object to illustrate an anomaly of our vision. Our eyes cannot collect the most light when looking straight ahead, but when looking slightly to the side. You might be able to see a certain number of stars in the Pleiades (perhaps 5 to 8) on a clear night when looking straight at it, but you might be able to see another star or two when you look slightly to the side and catch it “out of the corner of your eye”, so to speak. Try it. It works.
God to Job: “Canst thou bind the sweet influences of Pleiades, or loose the bands of Orion?” (Job 38:31)
“The heavens declare the glory of God, and the firmament shows His handiwork.” (Psalm 19:1)
God, the awesome creator!
Like my girls said, “Oooohhhh, sparkly!” Beautiful, Sunky.
That’s where the greys are from. Or so they say.
ask any of your atheist friends if they think that this just “happened”?????
Galileo published this diagram of his observation of the Pleiades. I can find corrrespondence of most of the lesser stars to a modern photograph, but their spatial relation is quite distorted. This is because the field of view of his telescope was so small that he had to mentally stitch the scene together. Even with this allowance, I find the three stars at the top under "CONSTELLATIO" problematical to identify.