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One day, the Pleiades were traveling with their mother and met the hunter Orion. There, after drinking too much, he made sexual advances to Merope, the daughter of the local king. King Oenopion had him blinded and removed from the island. Blind Orion reached the island of Lemnos, which was the place where god Hephaestus had his forge. In Greek mythology, the hunter Orion was the most handsome of men.

• Betelgeuse is in fact the second-brightest of the stars in Orion, ...