And that little group of seven stars, that's the Pleiades, the Seven Sisters.

凑在一起的那七颗星 就是昴宿星，七姐妹星。

In the bull's shoulder you can find the Pleiades, a bright star cluster recognized by stargazers for thousands of years.

在牛的肩膀处你可以找到昂宿星，这个明亮的星被观星者观察了几千年。

In Greek mythology the Pleiades represented the seven daughters of Pleione, an ocean nymph and protecter of sailors.

在希腊神话中，昂宿星代表着普莱恩的七个女儿，海洋女神，以及水手们的保护者。

One of the most famous and beautiful open clusters in the sky is the Pleiades, about 500 light years from Earth.

空中最著名、最美丽的放星之一是昴宿星，距离地球 500 光年。

We saw this in the last episode; the dust surrounding the Pleiades star cluster is a reflection nebula.

我们在上一期看到过；昴宿星周围的尘埃是一个反射星云。

The Pleiades, Orion, Taurus, or Hercules?

昴星、猎户座、金牛座还是力神？

In 1995, a group of astronomers was observing the Pleiades, a nearby cluster of stars that's visible to the naked eye.

1995年，一组学家正在观测昴宿星，这是地球附近肉眼可见的星。

Could the letters beside these seven stars spell Tauran, a name for Taurus, a constellation that includes the seven stars called the Pleiades?

这七颗星旁边的字母能否拼写为 Tauran（金牛座的名称） ，这是一个包括名为 Pleiades 的七颗星的星座？

By another coincidence, the Pleiades are located in the sky next to the Hyades, the only other cluster with stars resolvable by the naked eye.

另一个巧合是，昴宿星位于空中的毕宿星旁边，这是唯一一个肉眼可以分辨出的其他恒星星。

The light from the stars in the Pleiades is scattered by the nearby dust, and the blue light gets sent in every direction, including toward us.

昴宿星中恒星发出的光被附近的尘埃散射，蓝光会被送到各个方向，包括朝向我们。

Long exposures of the Pleiades reveal a surprise: The stars are embedded in a dust cloud, which glows blue from reflected and scattered starlight.

恒星嵌在尘埃云中，尘埃云因反射和散射的星光而发出蓝色光芒。

I love looking at the Pleiades with binoculars, and M35 at the foot of Gemini is another must-see for me in the winter through my telescope.

我喜欢用双筒望远镜看昴宿星，而双子星座脚下的 M35 是我在冬用望远镜必看的另一个目标。

The Pleiades are one of the closest and brightest star clusters in the sky, made of hot blue stars surrounded by a dust cloud that reflects their light.

昴宿星是空中彼此距离最近也最明亮的星之一，由蓝热星组成，被能反射它们光芒的尘雾包围。

In Hesiod's " Works and Days, " he suggests that: " when the Pleiades, born of Atlas rise before the sun, begin reaping; the plowing when they set."

在赫西俄德的《工作与时日》中，他提出：“当阿特拉斯诞生的昂宿星在太阳前升起时，始收割；当他们落下时耕种。”

And in these stories, they write about planets in relation to the universe as maintained by the gods, as well as mentioning stars and constellations like the Pleiades and Orion which still have the same name 3,000 years later.

在这些故事中，他们描写了诸神维护的行星与宇宙的关系，还提到了昂宿星和猎户座等恒星和星座，它们在 3000 年后仍然拥有相同的名称。