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Distance to Pleiades Calculated
Image credit: NOAO Astronomers from NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory have measured the distance to the Pleiades star cluster to greatest precision ever. After a decade’s worth of interferometric measurements, the team found that the star cluster is between 434 and 446 light years from Earth. This is important because the European Hipparcos satellite previously measured … Continue reading "Distance to Pleiades Calculated"
Fraser Cain