The Seven Sisters Have Thousands of Hidden Siblings
Astronomers have discovered that the famous Pleiades star cluster, otherwise known as the “Seven Sisters” is actually the bright core of a sprawling family of stars spread across nearly 2,000 light years. By combining stellar spin measurements with precise motion tracking, researchers identified over 3,000 related stars and revealed the Pleiades is twenty times larger than previously thought.
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