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Astronomers have recently made a groundbreaking revelation about the Pleiades star cluster, also known as the Seven Sisters. This iconic celestial feature, visible from Earth, is now understood to be ...

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Skies will be clear Wednesday night if you’d like to do a little stargazing. The closest conjunction of the planet Mars and the Pleiades star cluster since 1991 will take place. They will be about 2.6 ...

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Recent research has revealed that three well-known star clusters — the Orion Nebula Cluster, the Pleiades, and the Hyades — are linked in a cosmic family tree. Though these clusters appear distinct ...

Since January is usually a very cold month, it’s convenient that the night sky has a lot of bright stars and constellations making for quicker viewing on those frigid nights. The western horizon has ...

M44, also popularly known as the Beehive Cluster and, more historically, Praesepe (the manger), is a young open cluster in the center of Cancer the Crab. This constellation is already crawling high in ...

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People both modern and ancient have long known of the Pleiades, or Seven Sisters, a small collection of stars in the constellation Taurus. But this famous assembly could point the way to the world's ...

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Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. An award-winning reporter writing about stargazing and the night sky. This article is more than 3 years old. The Pleiades star, ...