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

  • The 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

  • Alexandrian Pleiad, Greek poets and tragedians in the 3rd century BC
  • 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
  • The Pleiades, characters in the novel series Overlord by Kugane Maruyama

See also

  • Bibliothèque de la Pléiade or Pléiade editions, the standard editions of major works of (mostly) French literature published by Éditions Gallimard
  • 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
  • Peleiades