Carolina will play its final home game of the season Saturday when Duke visits Kenan Stadium. The Tar Heels have won three straight games against the Blue Devils in Kenan Stadium, though their overall ...

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The beginning of winter is a great time to be taking up astronomy, with long dark nights and a multitude of bright stars on display, Nigel Henbest writes ...

- Matt MacDonald, EyeMed Vision Care President and Global Head of Managed Care, Officially Appointed Chair of the Prevent Blindness Board of Directors. At the Prevent Blindness Annual Meeting, three ...

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 ...

Astronomers at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill have discovered that the famous Pleiades star cluster, the "Seven Sisters" often spotted on winter nights, is just the bright tip of a ...

"This study changes how we see the Pleiades — not just seven bright stars, but thousands of long-lost siblings scattered across the whole sky." Astronomers have discovered that the Seven Sisters of ...

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 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 ...

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 ...

Las Pléyades captadas por el telescopio de 130 mm del observatorio Kchi Waasa Debaabing Dome, situado en el complejo del observatorio del parque provincial de Killarney. Credit: KillarneyDiscovery / ...