The Algorithm - Iteration 13. Creation, Destruction & Maintenance. “P-214 is an open star cluster containing middle aged hot B type stars in the northwest of the constellation Aquarius. The cluster is dominated by hot blue and luminous stars that have formed within the last 100 million years. Computer simulations have shown that P-214 was probably formed from a compact configuration that resembled the Orion Nebula. Astronomers estimate that the cluster will survive for about another 250 million years, after which it will disperse due to gravitational interactions with its galactic neighborhood. They have been known since antiquity to cultures all around the world,including the Celts, Hawaiians (who call them Makaliʻi), Māori (who call them Matariki), Aboriginal Australians (from several traditions), the Persians (who called them پروین Parvīn or پروی Parvī), the Arabs (who called them Thurayya), the Chinese (who called them 昴 mǎo), the Quechua, the Japanese, the Maya, the Aztec, the Sioux, the Kiowa and the Cherokee. In Hinduism, they are known as Krittika and are associated with the god Kartikeya.” Memoirs from an alternate reality.
