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Alcyone (η Tau η Tauri Eta Tauri) is a star system in the constellation Taurus. It is the brightest star in the Pleiades open cluster which is a young cluster aged at less than 50 million years. Alcyone is approximately 400 light years from Earth. It is named after the mythological figure Alcyone one of the mythological Pleiades. It is known as 昴宿六 (the Sixth Star of the Hairy Head) in Chinese.

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