Looking upward, I saw through a sudden rift in the clouds Aldebaran and the
Hyades! In all this there was a hint of night--the lynx, the man with the torch, the owl.
But when the Pleiades and
Hyades and strong Orion begin to set (31), then remember to plough in season: and so the completed year (32) will fitly pass beneath the earth.
If it were worth the while to settle in those parts near to the Pleiades or the
Hyades, to Aldebaran or Altair, then I was really there, or at an equal remoteness from the life which I had left behind, dwindled and twinkling with as fine a ray to my nearest neighbor, and to be seen only in moonless nights by him.
To Orion's left, in Taurus, are two beautiful naked-eye open clusters: the Pleiades and the V-shaped
Hyades. Below Taurus lie Perseus and Auriga (with brilliant Capella).
[20-21] ALL NIGHT: The almost-full Moon is in the
Hyades.
And below the Pleiades near the bright orange star Aldebaran is the
Hyades cluster, the bright stars of which form up into an arrowhead shape.
The Architect of Aeons tells of how the
Hyades Armada has traveled thousands of light-years to conquer earth and has arrived at last in the 112th century-but the invasion takes a different turn and causes two enemies to join together in an uneasy alliance to create something bigger than either of them could have imagined.
Grandest are the tight, bright Pleiades and the big, loose
Hyades, both in Taurus.
Other topics of the 85 papers include mass distribution and luminosity functions, white dwarfs excepting from the
Hyades, the angular momentum of isolated white dwarf stars, the link between RS Ophiuchi and type Ia supernovae, creating white dwarf photospheres in the laboratory, and the frequency of debris disks at white dwarfs.
The stars, known as white dwarfs-small, dim remnants of stars once like the Sun-reside 150 light-years away in the
Hyades star cluster, in the constellation of Taurus (The Bull).