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Merope (23 Tauri) is a star in the constellation Taurus and a member of the Pleiades star cluster. It is approximately 360 light years from Earth.Merope is a blue-white B-type subgiant with a mean apparent magnitude of +4.14. Richard Hinckley Allen described the star as lucid white and violet. It has a luminosity of 630 times that of the Sun and a surface temperature of 14000 kelvins. Merope’s mass is roughly 4.5 solar masses and has a radius more than 4 times as great as the Sun’s.
