While Deepavali gets the spotlight as the major festival with a public holiday, Karthigai Deepam sits on much older roots.

A new, exciting chapter has begun at the University of Hawaii 2.2-meter telescope. The University of Hawaii Institute for ...

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"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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 / ...

From reproductive rights to climate change to Big Tech, The Independent is on the ground when the story is developing. Whether it's investigating the financials of Elon Musk's pro-Trump PAC or ...

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 ...