Matariki is a signal of the Maori New Year, it’s the renewal and the celebration in New Zealand. This symbol’s the seven sisters or known as the pleiades.
Matariki is a star cluster which appears in the night sky in mid winter. Also Matariki is not known as a constellation it’s known as a star cluster. There are over 500 stars that are in space, the stars looks like they are close together, but actually they are far apart when you are in space. There are only 6 or 7 stars that are visible for us to see from Earth. They are Tawhirimatea, Tupu-a-rangi, Waipuna-a-rangi, Waiti, Tupu-a-nuku, ururangi, and waita.
The relative teenage stars were born together in a nebula at about the same time. Nebula is a cloud of dust in space, some other nebulae are where stars are being born. The young teenage stars is blue, they are much gigantic than our Earth sun. Blue stars are the hottest, yellow are medium hot and red are cooler.
The foggy white that is surrounded around the seven stars can be seen with a telescope. The hazy light that is connected to the stars together is the nebula. Matariki is not on the same day every year, Matariki is usually celebrated some years. It’s because from our perspective Matariki is behind the sun.
Around the whole entire world matariki is name after plenty of culture. The Greek name is the Pleiades, in Japan it’s called Subaru and in china it it Mao. The Maori use the stars and the moon for calendar, each phase of the moon signal the Maori to do their favourite thing, example planting and fishing.
