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Astronomers identified more than 3,000 stars associated with the cluster, and there might be even more. By Katrina Miller Look to the east after sunset on a clear winter night and you’ll spot a bright ...

The shimmering Pleiades star cluster has just shed its millennia-old reputation as a collection of Seven Sisters. Thanks to new data gleaned from the TESS and Gaia star-tracking spacecrafts, ...

Astronomers have redefined the size of the famous Pleiades cluster. According to a new study, it is twenty times larger than believed. This discovery reshapes how scientists understand cluster ...

The Pleiades star cluster or Seven Sisters is part of many Indigenous groups' songlines, as well as being important in cultures around the world. A new study has uncovered more than 3,000 stars that ...

A new study redefines the Pleiades (M45) as a "Greater Pleiades Complex," an extensive stellar family comprising 3,091 member stars and spanning over 1,900 light-years, making it 20 times larger than ...

The Hubble Space Telescope has been surveying space since 1990 and has captured some interesting cosmic elements in action.

November is the best month of 2025 to catch a glimpse of the distant ice giant Uranus as it shines at opposition, though you'll still need a telescope if you hope to spot the elusive planet hiding ...

This starmap shows the full extent of the Greater Pleiades Complex as it would appear on the Pasadena night sky if every star in it were visible. Of the 3,019 stars that make up the complex, 1,631 are ...

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Just about everybody knows the Pleiades star cluster, also called the Seven Sisters. They represent the daughters of the ancient Greek gods Atlas and Pleione. After Orion's Belt and the Big Dipper, it ...

"Seven sisters," or the Pleiades star cluster, may have more sisters in their family than believed. Findings about this have been published in The Astrophysical Journal. The team of researchers ...