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One of the stars in the star cluster Pleiades
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asterope
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Asterope \As*ter"o*pe\, n. [Gr. ?, lit., lightning.] (Myth.) One of the Pleiades; -- called also Sterope . (Astron.) A double star in the Pleiades (21 k and 22 l Pleiadum, of the 5.8 and 6.4 magnitude respectively), appearing as a single star of the 5.3 ...
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The name Asterope or Sterope is shared by two stars , 21 Tauri and 22 Tauri , in the constellation Taurus . They are separated by 0.047° on the sky and are both members of the Pleiades open cluster and approximately 440 light years from Earth .