{"id":11612,"date":"2021-08-24T01:24:12","date_gmt":"2021-08-24T08:24:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/BigJimIndustries.com\/wordpress\/?p=11612"},"modified":"2021-08-25T16:31:25","modified_gmt":"2021-08-25T23:31:25","slug":"the-seven-sisters","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/2021\/08\/24\/the-seven-sisters\/","title":{"rendered":"The Seven Sisters"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

from LiveScience<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

100,000-year-old story could explain why the Pleiades are called ‘Seven Sisters’<\/h1>\n\n\n\n

By\u00a0Adam Mann<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The Pleiades star cluster is also called the Seven Sisters. It may have gotten that name from the oldest story ever told.\u00a0(Image credit: LazyPixel\/Brunner S\u00e9bastien via Getty Images)<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

People both modern and ancient have long known of\u00a0the Pleiades<\/u><\/a>, or Seven Sisters, a small collection of stars in the constellation Taurus.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

But this famous assembly could point the way to the world’s oldest story, one told by our ancestors in Africa nearly 100,000 years ago, a speculative new study has proposed. To make this case, the paper\u2019s authors draw on similarities between Greek and Indigenous Australian myths about the constellation.  But one expert told Live Science that similarities in these myths could be pure chance, not a sign they emerged from a common origin.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Related:\u00a0<\/strong>12 trippy images hidden in the zodiac<\/strong><\/u><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Pleiades are part of what astronomers call an open star cluster, a group of stars all born around the same time. Telescopes have identified more than 800 stars in the region, though most humans can spot only about six on a clear, dark night.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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from LiveScience 100,000-year-old story could explain why the Pleiades are called ‘Seven Sisters’ By\u00a0Adam Mann People both modern and ancient have long known of\u00a0the Pleiades, or Seven Sisters, a small collection of stars in the constellation Taurus.\u00a0 But this famous assembly could point the way to the world’s oldest story, one told by our ancestors […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11612","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-weirdness"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11612","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/26"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11612"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11612\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11612"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11612"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11612"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}