Atlas

Its story

Atlas is a blue class-B star burning within the Pleiades cluster, 382 light-years away in Taurus. It bears the name of the Titan condemned to hold up the celestial vault, mythical father of the seven sisters that form the cluster in Greek mythology. Atlas and Pleione are the parent stars; their daughters are the small but brilliant points that have guided agricultural calendars from pharaonic Egypt to the Polynesians of the Pacific.