昴宿五是金牛座中的疏散星团昴宿星团内的一颗恒星,与地球的距离大约是440光年。
在这幅哈勃太空望远镜拍摄的的图片中,昴宿五位于左上方。
The star Merope lies just off the upper left edge of this picture from the Hubble Space Telescope.
很多星星拥有古名称——例如Aldebaran(毕宿五),在阿拉伯语中意为“追随者”,因为它看起来就像在天空中追随着昴星团,或者说七姐妹星团似的。
A number of stars have possessed names since antiquity - Aldebaran, for instance, means "the follower" in Arabic, as it seems to follow the Pleiades, or Seven Sisters star cluster, across the sky.
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