Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A view of the Pleiades, a star cluster about 440 light-years from Earth. (ROBERT GENDLER/SCIENCE PHOTO LIBRARY/Getty Images) The ...
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 sun wanders the Milky Way alone; our star orbits the galaxy’s distant center without any stellar siblings. But it wasn’t always this way. The solar system was very likely born in a tremendous gas ...