Tuesday, April 19, 2011

Matariki

Pleiades (M45, Seven Sisters) open cluster - infrared image from NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope (Matariki)
In the Māori language Matariki is both the name of the Pleiades star cluster and also of the season of its first rising in late May or early June - taken as the beginning of the new year.Courtesy NASA/JPL-Caltech

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