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The star is also called '''Purple Pleione'''. In the best-selling 1955 [[nature]] book published by [[Time-Life]] called ''The World We Live In'' , there is an artist's impression of Pleione in which it is called ''Purple Pleione''. The star is stated to be a rapidly rotating star and is shown in the illustration as being highly oblated and exhibiting a pale bluish-violet color with a ring of glowing [[red]] [[hydrogen]] gas around it. The part of the star that is seen through the gas appears a [[magenta]]-[[purple]] color in the illustration. |
The star is also called '''Purple Pleione'''. In the best-selling 1955 [[nature]] book published by [[Time-Life]] called ''The World We Live In'' , there is an artist's impression of Pleione in which it is called ''Purple Pleione''. The star is - incorrectly - stated to be a rapidly rotating star and is shown in the illustration as being highly oblated and exhibiting a pale bluish-violet color with a ring of glowing [[red]] [[hydrogen]] gas around it. The part of the star that is seen through the gas appears a [[magenta]]-[[purple]] color in the illustration. |
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The caption under the illustration (the original of which is a painting by the famed space artist [[Chesley Bonestell]]) states: |
The caption under the illustration (the original of which is a painting by the famed space artist [[Chesley Bonestell]]) states: |
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| Observation data Epoch J2000.0 Equinox J2000.0 | |
|---|---|
| Constellation | Taurus |
| Right ascension | 03h 49m 11.2s |
| Declination | +24° 08' 12" |
| Apparent magnitude (V) | +5.05 |
| Distance | 440 ly (135 pc) |
| Spectral type | B8Vpe |
| Other designations | |
Pleione (or 28 Tauri) is a star in the constellation Taurus and a member of the Pleiades star cluster. It is approximately 440 light years from Earth.
Pleione is a blue-white B-type main sequence dwarf with a mean apparent magnitude of +5.05. It is classified as a Gamma Cassiopeiae type variable star and its brightness varies from magnitude +4.77 to +5.50. Its variable star designation is BU Tauri.
Purple Pleione
The star is also called Purple Pleione. In the best-selling 1955 nature book published by Time-Life called The World We Live In , there is an artist's impression of Pleione in which it is called Purple Pleione. The star is - incorrectly - stated to be a rapidly rotating star and is shown in the illustration as being highly oblated and exhibiting a pale bluish-violet color with a ring of glowing red hydrogen gas around it. The part of the star that is seen through the gas appears a magenta-purple color in the illustration.
The caption under the illustration (the original of which is a painting by the famed space artist Chesley Bonestell) states: "Purple Pleione, a star of the familiar Pleiades cluster, rotates so rapidly that it has flattened into a flying saucer and hurled forth a dark red ring of hydrogen. Where the excited gas crosses Pleione's equator, it obscures her violet light." [1]
References
- ^ Barnett, Lincoln and the editorial staff of Life The World We Live In New York:1955--Simon and Schuster--Top of Page 284--Illustration by Chesley Bonestell picturing the star Purple Pleione
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