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There’s magic in the air this holiday season and there’s also magic in the December night skies. These long nights are ...

There’s magic in the air this holiday season and there’s also magic in the  December Pottsville night skies. These long ...

There’s magic in the air this holiday season, and there’s also magic in the December Butler night skies. These long nights ...

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 ...

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, ...

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 ...

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 / ...

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