Alcyone
| In Greek mythology, the daughter of Aeolus and wife of Ceyx. She and her husband were changed into kingfishers after Ceyx was shipwrecked and Alcyone had thrown herself into the sea in her grief. |
| Halcyon days were supposed to be two weeks of calm while the kingfisher (alcyon) was breeding in a floating nest. |
Alcyone
| Brightest member of the Pleiades cluster, a third-magnitude blue star. It is one of the cluster of stars in the zodiacal constellation of Taurus. |
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