Hyades
Astronomy. a group of stars comprising a moving cluster in the constellation Taurus, supposed by the ancients to indicate the approach of rain when they rose with the sun.
Classical Mythology. a group of nymphs and sisters of the Pleiades who nurtured the infant Dionysus and were placed among the stars as a reward.
Origin of Hyades
1- Also Hy·ads [hahy-adz]. /ˈhaɪ ædz/.
Words Nearby Hyades
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How to use Hyades in a sentence
Among these include many of the stars in and around the Hyades cluster.
Milky Way’s tidal forces are shredding a nearby star cluster | Ken Croswell | August 18, 2020 | Science News For StudentsSiegfried Röser, an astronomer at Heidelberg University in Germany who led one of the two teams that discovered the cluster’s tails, agrees that the Hyades is in its sunset years.
The star cluster closest to Earth is in its death throes | Ken Croswell | July 24, 2020 | Science NewsSongs that the Hyades shall sing, Where flap the tatters of the King, Must die unheard in Dim Carcosa.
Read ‘The King in Yellow,’ the ‘True Detective’ Reference That’s the Key to the Show | Robert W. Chambers | February 20, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTSome have suggested that the first two letters are from ὕειν, to rain, (cf. Hyades).
He was peculiarly named Ὑης; and his priests were the Hyades, and Hyantes.
The inexperienced observer is certain to be surprised by the display of stars which an opera-glass brings to view in the Hyades.
Astronomy with an Opera-glass | Garrett Putman ServissAnd now let us look at the Hyades, an assemblage of stars not less beautiful than their more celebrated sisters the Pleiades.
Astronomy with an Opera-glass | Garrett Putman ServissA good example is the cluster in the Hyades, where Boss has studied thirty-nine stars with special care.
Climatic Changes | Ellsworth Huntington
British Dictionary definitions for Hyades (1 of 2)
Hyads (ˈhaɪædz)
/ (ˈhaɪəˌdiːz) /
an open cluster of stars in the constellation Taurus: Compare Pleiades 1
Origin of Hyades
1British Dictionary definitions for Hyades (2 of 2)
/ (ˈhaɪəˌdiːz) /
Greek myth seven nymphs, daughters of Atlas, whom Zeus placed among the stars after death
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