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Translation for 'Pleiades' from English to French

Pleiades

Pléiades {f.pl}astron.

• Pléiades {f.pl} = Pleiades
• Pléiades {f.pl} = Seven Sisters [Pleiades] [star cluster]

• She is one of the seven Pleiades, daughters of the Titan Atlas and the sea-nymph Pleione (...).
• As the book unfolds, Lorq learns that his family was founded by pirates, who killed members of the Red family in previous generations in order to keep the Pleiades free of Earth-based corporations, although Lorq's ancestors did so with the support of the Pleiades' citizens.
• Maia is the fourth-brightest star in the Pleiades open star cluster (Messier 45), after Alcyone, Atlas and Electra.
• "Its Children" are the other stars of the Pleiades.
• The constellation Pleiades was of particular importance to the Navajo people.

• Its name originates from the pleiades, a star cluster in the constellation Taurus.
• The name of the order refers to the Pleiades, a star cluster located in the constellation Taurus in the northern hemisphere.
• Taygete Cone is an extinct volcanic cone northeast of Alcyone Cone in the north part of The Pleiades, Victoria Land.
• Qullqa is also the Quechua language name for the constellation Pleiades.
• The Hawaiian creation chant known as the Kumulipo also begins with reference to the pleiades (known as the makali`i).

• The Pléiades constellation is composed of two very-high-resolution optical Earth-imaging satellites. Pléiades-1A and Pléiades-1B provide the coverage of Earth's surface with a repeat cycle of 26 days. Designed as a dual civil/military system, Pléiades will meet the space imagery requirements of European defence as well as civil and commercial needs.
• Of the remaining open sections, the Vevey to Blonay line is [...] long and from there to Les Pléiades a further [...]. In that [...] , the line rises some [...] reaching [...] at Les Pléiades.
• "Pléiades" constellation is composed of two very-high-resolution (50 centimeters pan & 2.1 meter spectral) optical Earth-imaging satellites. "Pléiades-HR 1A" and "Pléiades-HR 1B" provide the coverage of Earth's surface with a repeat cycle of 26 days. Designed as a dual civil/military system, Pléiades will meet the space imagery requirements of European defence as well as civil and commercial needs.