M45 The Pleiades

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1. The cluster is now known in Japan as Subaru.

In Japan, the cluster is mentioned under the name Mutsuraboshi (six stars) in the 8th-century Kojiki.[44] The cluster is now known in Japan as Subaru.

It was chosen as the name of the Subaru Telescope which is the 8.2-meter (320 in) flagship telescope of the National Astronomical Observatory of Japan. It is located at the Mauna Kea Observatory on the island of Hawaii. It had the largest monolithic primary mirror in the world from its commissioning in 1998 until 2005.[45]

It was chosen as the brand name of Subaru automobiles to reflect the origins of the firm as the joining of five companies, and is depicted in the firm's six-star logo.[46]