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The brightest stars of the cluster are named the Seven Sisters in early Greek mythology: Sterope, Merope, Electra, Maia, Taygeta, Celaeno, and Alcyone. Later, they were assigned parents, Pleione and Atlas. [17] As daughters of Atlas, the Hyades were sisters of the Pleiades. The following table gives details of the brightest stars in the cluster:
The Seven Sisters are seen in the background of the Quidditch World Cup in the 2005 film Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire, and also when Slartibartfast is showing Arthur Dent the "new" Earth in The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, released the same year. Much of the 2015 feature film Mr. Holmes was filmed around the Seven Sisters.
Several of the most prominent male Olympian gods (including Zeus, Poseidon, and Ares) engaged in affairs with the seven heavenly sisters. These relationships resulted in the birth of their children. Maia, eldest [8] of the seven Pleiades, was mother of Hermes by Zeus. [9] Electra, mother of Dardanus [10] and Iasion, [11] by Zeus. [12]
The Seven Sisters cliffs and the coastguard cottages, from Seaford Head across the River Cuckmere. The Chalk Group is the most well known rock in East Sussex, forming the Downs and where it meets the sea the spectacular Seven Sisters and geologically and biologically rich cliffs from Brighton to Newhaven. The Chalk formed in a warm, clear sea ...
The name Seven Sisters is a reference to the Greek myth of the Pleiades, goddesses immortalized as stars in the sky: [1] Maia, Electra, Taygete, Alcyone, Celaeno, Sterope, and Merope. [2] These colleges were created in the 19th century to provide women with the educational equivalent to the historically all-male Ivy League colleges.
The Dorset map of 1619 [2] shows the area known today as Seven Sisters named as Page Greene. However, by 1805 the first series Ordnance Survey map was showing the area as Seven Sisters. [3] The name is derived from seven elms which were planted in a circle with a walnut tree at their centre on an area of common land known as Page Green. [4]
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Seven Sisters Peaks is a 2,747-metre (9,012-foot) multi-summit massif located in the Bulkley Ranges of the Interior Mountains in British Columbia, Canada. The massif is situated within Seven Sisters Provincial Park and Protected Area , 10 km (6 mi) southeast of Cedarvale , south of Orion Peak , and surrounded by Seven Sisters Glacier.