Pleiades (disambiguation)

Pleiades can refer to:

Astronomy and science

• Pleiades (star cluster), an open cluster of stars in the constellation Taurus
  • Pleiades in folklore and literature, interpretations and traditional meanings of the star cluster among various human cultures
  • Message From The Pleiades, a book by contactee Billy Meier
• Pleiades (supercomputer), a supercomputer at NASA's Ames Research Center, projected to be completed in 2012
• Pleiadeans, an alleged group of extraterrestrials from the Pleiades
• Pleiades, An earth-observation satellite programme operated by the French space agency CNES

Literature and print

• Pleiades (magazine) or, Pleiades: A Journal of New Writing, magazine that publishes fiction, poetry, essays, and book reviews
• Bibliothèque de la Pléiade ("Pléiade editions"), the standard editions of major works of (mostly) French literature, published by Éditions Gallimard

Other

• Pleiades (Greek mythology), the seven sisters of Greek mythology
• Pleiades (volcano group), a group of volcanoes in Antarctica
• Pleiades (wine), a wine produced by California winemaker Sean Thackrey
• Con†Stellation I: The Pleiades, the first in an annual series of science fiction conventions in Huntsville, Alabama, USA
• Wish Upon the Pleiades, a Japanese anime series produced by Gainax and sponsored by Subaru
• Pléïades, a composition by French composer Iannis Xenakis