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Astronomy
N81
NASA's Hubble Space Telescope has taken a 'family portrait' of young, ultra-bright stars nested in their embryonic cloud of glowing gases. The celestial maternity ward, called N81, is located 200,000 ... Continue reading
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Astronomy
Ancient Planet in a Globular Cluster Core
Long before our Sun and Earth ever existed, a Jupiter-sized planet formed around a sun-like star. Now, 13 billion years later, NASA's Hubble Space Telescope has precisely measured the mass of this ... Continue reading
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Astronomy
How Far Are The Seven Sisters?
The Pleiades cluster, named by the ancient Greeks, is easily seen as a small grouping of stars lying near the shoulder of Taurus, the Bull, in the winter sky. Although it might be expected that the ... Continue reading
![The brilliant stars seen in this image are members of the popular open star cluster known as the Pleiades, or Seven Sisters.](/images/FactsImages/seven.jpg)