Pleiades

In astronomy, the Pleiades, or Seven Sisters (Messier object 45 or M45), is an open star cluster containing middle-aged hot B-type stars located in the constellation of Taurus. It is among the nearest star clusters to Earth and is the cluster most obvious to the naked eye in the night sky. Pleiades has several meanings in different cultures and traditions.

The cluster is dominated by hot blue and extremely luminous stars that have formed within the last 100 million years. Dust that forms a faint reflection nebulosity around the brightest stars was thought at first to be left over from the formation of the cluster (hence the alternate name Maia Nebula after the star Maia), but is now known to be an unrelated dust cloud in the interstellar medium that the stars are currently passing through. Astronomers estimate that the cluster will survive for about another 250 million years, after which it will disperse due to gravitational interactions with its galactic neighborhood.

The Pleiades are a prominent sight in winter in the Northern Hemisphere and in summer in the Southern Hemisphere, and have been known since antiquity to cultures all around the world, including the Māori, Aboriginal Australians, the Persians, the Chinese, the Japanese, the Maya, the Aztec, and the Sioux and Cherokee. In Tamil culture this star is attributed to Lord Murugan (Lord Murugan raised by the six sisters known as the Kārththikai Pengal and thus came to be known as Kārtikeyan), in Sanskrit he is noted as Skanda.

Police Summoned When Texas Eighth-Grader Tries To Buy Lunch With $2 Bill

Edit WorldNews.com 05 May 2016

The money was confiscated and school officials accused the girl of using counterfeit money. The girl says police told her she was in “big trouble” after responding to the counterfeit money claims and began questioning the student. The grandmother, Sharon Kay Joseph, says she was contacted by the school about the $2 bill and she said she had received the bill from a local convenience store ... The story, however, doesn’t end there ... The U.S....

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US magazine names British star in media gag over 'sex with prostitute'

Edit Belfast Telegraph 05 May 2016

A famous British actor who won an injunction to prevent claims that he slept with a prostitute from being published has been named in the US. The married star allegedly paid for sex with Helen Wood, the former escort who once claimed she had an affair with England footballer Wayne Rooney while his wife Coleen was pregnant with their first child. Share Go To ... The actor's name was also circulated on social media ... He said ... " ... ....

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Expert: Advances In Driverless Cars Will Cause Increase In Sex While Driving

Edit WorldNews.com 04 May 2016

Technology keeps marching on and with new advances – such as the Google/Fiat partnership to bring the driverless car to the mass market – Canadian officials are worried driverless cars will lead to a greater increase in sex while in those cars, according to experts at the Canadian Automated Vehicles Centre of Excellence (CAVCE) and reported by Raw Story....

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A man holds a handful of 5 Billion Zimbabwean dollar notes, in Harare, Friday, June, 12, 2015.

Zimbabwe To Print Own Version Of US Dollar

Edit Peace FM Online 05 May 2016

Zimbabwe is set to print its own version of the US dollar in order to ease a cash shortage in the country. Central bank governor John Mangudya said the cash, known as bond notes, will be backed by $200m (£140m) support from the Africa Export-Import Bank ...   ... ....

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Emergency Declared As Fire Burns Canada Oil Town

Edit USA Today 05 May 2016

Alberta declared a state of emergency Wednesday as crews frantically held back wind-whipped wildfires that had already torched 1,600 homes and other buildings in Canada's main oil sands city of Fort McMurray, forcing over 80,000 residents to flee. (.   . ... ....

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Daniel Aaron, groundbreaking scholar, dead at 103

Edit Times Union 04 May 2016

Aaron, who received a National Humanities Medal in 2010, died Saturday at age 103 at Mount Auburn Hospital in Cambridge, Massachusetts, according to his son, Paul Aaron ... His most lasting contribution to American letters was likely the Library of America, established in 1979 — through public and private grants — as an answer to France's Pleiade series of elegant volumes of classic texts ... Kennedy ... They had three sons. ....

NASA Ames Astrogram - Spring 2016 (Ames Research Center)

Edit Public Technologies 03 May 2016

(Source. Ames Research Center) ... - 3 p.m. PDT ... Pleiades helps explain NASA's IRIS Solar Observatory findings ... To help explain longstanding mysteries of the sun's atmosphere, scientists turned to one of the world's fastest supercomputers, Pleiades, located at the NASA Advanced Supercomputing (NAS) facility, at NASA Ames ... For more information about the modeling and simulation work done on Pleiades and to view the simulation video, visit ... Dr ... ....

Essays on tennis, Cyndi Lauper goes country and more in May

Edit The Oklahoman 02 May 2016

Here are some of the best new releases in books, music, movies and more on the horizon in May. Dates are subject to change without notice. 1. “String Theory. David Foster Wallace on Tennis” (Library of America). David Foster Wallace, whose papers reside at the Ransom Center, wasn’t just an innovative novelist and brilliant essayist. He might have been the best writer on tennis of all time ... 2 ... 3 ... 4 ... 5 ... Gorguts, “Pleiades’ Dust” (Season Of Mist)....

Greece: Ongoing crackdown on civil society providing humanitarian assistance to migrants and asylum seekers (OMCT - World Organisation Against Torture)

Edit Public Technologies 27 Apr 2016

Moreover, several journalists and NGOs, including the Hellenic Action for Human Rights 'Pleiades'', are often not allowed access to army-run facilities[12] ... [12]See Pleiades' Press Release,February 28, 2016. The NGO Pleiades is an NGO registered in Greece since 2009 operating in the field of human rights and carrying out sensitization campaigns, ......

God made the stars also

Edit The Examiner 26 Apr 2016

He made the stars also. It is a statement that God made the stars (Genesis 1.16) along with the other celestial bodies in the universe. There is an incalculable number of stars (Jeremiah 33.22), though vast they are finite (Isaiah 40.26). But the amazing thing about these stars is that God gave them all a name (Psalm 147.4) ... The Bible mentions the constellation Orion and the star cluster Pleiades (Job 38.31) ... (King James Version). ....

Empty DDoS Threats: Meet the Armada Collective (CloudFlare Inc)

Edit Public Technologies 25 Apr 2016

(Source. CloudFlare Inc). Beginning in March 2016, we began hearing reports of a gang of cybercriminals once again calling themselves the Armada Collective. The calling card of the gang was an extortion email sent to a wide variety of online businesses threatening to launch DDoS attacks if they weren't paid in Bitcoin ... The Threat ... To ... From ... Alleged members of DD4BC were arrested in January 2016 as part of Europol's Operation Pleiades....

Award-winning Shreveport poet to read at Louisiana Tech (Louisiana Tech University)

Edit Public Technologies 19 Apr 2016

(Source. Louisiana Tech University). In celebration of Poetry Month, award-winning Shreveport poet Katie Bickham will speak about and read her poetry at Louisiana Tech University on Thursday, April 28 ... in George T ... Bickham's poems have appeared in 'Southern Quarterly,' 'Prairie Schooner,' 'Pleiades,' 'The Missouri Review,' 'Deep South Magazine' and elsewhere ... In an interview with Pleiades Press, she expresses her hopes for her book....

Sentinel-1B will complete Europe´s “Radar Vision” (Airbus Group NV)

Edit Public Technologies 19 Apr 2016

(Source. Airbus Group NV). Pre-launch preparations for the Sentinel-1B satellite, carrying an Airbus Defence and Space built radar instrument, are in full swing at Europe´s Kourou Spaceport in French Guiana ... Airbus Defence and Space in Copernicus ... Airbus Defence and Space operates a fleet of optical and radar satellites - SPOT, Pleiades, TerraSAR-X and TanDEM-X - and is one of the leading data suppliers for the Copernicus services....

First Friday (City of Mill Valley, CA)

Edit Public Technologies 18 Apr 2016

(Source. City of Mill Valley, CA). First Friday. Poetry World Series. Friday, May 6th. Main Reading Room - 7.00pm. Wine reception at 6.30pm for pre-registered guests. Registration highly recommended. Click here to register. (If registration for this event is full, you will not be able to register ... First Friday ... Emcee . ... Judges. ... His poems have appeared in Best American Poetry, Fugue, Nimrod, Pleiades, Poetry Flash, and Salamander, among others....

New Leaders Announced at UT Health Science Center College of Medicine in Chattanooga (The University of Tennessee Health Science Center)

Edit Public Technologies 16 Apr 2016

(Source ... Robert C ... Thomas G ... Dr ... ' ... Among many leadership positions during his career, he has been director of the National Stroke Intervention Training Center, medical director of the Pleiades Foundation for Advanced Neuro-Medical Education, medical director of the Erlanger Southeast Regional Stroke Center, founder and executive director of the Chattanooga Network for Stroke, and founder and director of the Chattanooga Stroke Conference....

Catching Mercury Under Dusk Skies

Edit Universe Today 12 Apr 2016

Have you ever seen Mercury? The diminutive innermost world takes the center stage next month, as it transits the Sun as seen from our early perspective on May 9th ... First, Mercury's orbit is elliptical, meaning it can venture anywhere from 17.9 to 27.8 degrees from the Sun as seen from the Earth ... And finally, Mercury's visibility is a matter of observer latitude ... Mercury 6.8 passes degrees SSW of the Pleiades.April 29 ... watch this space! ... ....

GREY:MATTER Pres. Benjamin Damage (Live) & Etapp Kyle tickets

Edit Skiddle 09 Apr 2016

BLOC in Hackney Wick, London. Saturday 9th April 2016. 11.00pm til 6.00am. Minimum Age. 18. On April 9th, we return to our favourite warehouse with a line-up we are particularly excited about. Event Info. Venue ... £15.00 Face Value ... Completing the line-up will be a selection of family members from our own roster, with Essen-based, Someone Outside, returning to join our London-based Live act, Casual Affair and hard hitting duo, Pleiades ... ....

Wood: Cloud-Polyphonies; Tongues of Fire review – choral exuberance and amazing oil drums

Edit The Guardian 07 Apr 2016

3 / 5 stars. MDR Leipzig Radio Choir/Ear Massage Percussion Quartet/Wood/Yale Percussion Group/Van Sice. (NMC) ... Each is defined by a different set of instruments, rather like Iannis Xenakis’s percussion classic Pleiades, though Wood’s writing for the six players is far more subtle, never so elementally brutal as Xenakis’s. ....

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