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TAURUS (" the Bull ")

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Originally appearing in Volume V26, Page 456 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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TAURUS (" the See also:Bull ") , in See also:astronomy, the second sign of the See also:zodiac (q.v.), denoted by the See also:symbol 'd. It is also a See also:constellation of very See also:great antiquity, the See also:Pleiades and See also:Hyades, two See also:star clusters, being possibly referred to in the Old Testament; Aldebaran, a star, is mentioned by See also:Hesiod and See also:Homer. See also:Ptolemy catalogued 44 stars, Tycho See also:Brahe 43, See also:Hevelius 51. The Greeks fabled this constellation to be the bull which See also:bore See also:Europa across the seas to See also:Crete, and was afterwards raised to the heavens by See also:Jupiter. a See also:Tauri, or Aldebaran, is a brilliant star of a reddish See also:colour and magnitude 1.2; this star is the See also:principal See also:object of the See also:group named the Hyades, named after the seven daughters of See also:Atlas and Aethra—See also:Ambrosia, Coronis,• Eudora, Pasithoe, Plexaris, Pytho and Tycho—fabled by the Greeks to have been transformed into stars by Jupiter for bewailing the See also:death of their See also:brother Hyas. Another star group in this constellation is the Pleiades. X Tauri is an " See also:Algol " variable, varying in magnitude from 3.4 to 4.2. Nebula M.1 Tauri is a famous " crab " nebula, so named by See also:Lord See also:Rosse from its clawlike protuberances; it is the first of the See also:series of nebula on the enumeration of Messier.

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