star cluster
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In trying to explain the spectacular star trails of the star cluster Palomar 5, astronomers stumbled on a very large trove of black holes.
From Scientific American
The Pleiades, also known as the Seven Sisters and Messier 45, is an open star cluster containing middle-aged, hot B-type stars in the north-west of the constellation Taurus.
From BBC
One possibility was suggested in a recent paper with my student Amir Siraj, which showed that a temporary twin companion to the sun in its birth star cluster, could have trapped the observed population of outer Oort cloud objects from the cluster environment.
From Scientific American
Instead, they found a nest of baby monsters, as many as five dozen: dark engines of annihilation, packed into a space barely larger than our own solar system, buzzing back and forth and throwing their considerable weight around in the dense core of the star cluster.
From New York Times
Mars, the new home of Nasa’s Perseverance rover, closes in on the Pleiades star cluster this week to give sky-watchers a beautiful view of contrasting celestial colours.
From The Guardian
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