#carnegie science

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Goin' way back.

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Tonight.

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Exoplanets. You can imagine my excitement when the lecture turned to Trappist-1 and her beer named planets 🍺🔭 Carnegie Science Observatories Astronomy Lecture Series at The Huntington

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The Pleiades is part of an enormous stellar complex birthed by the same star-forming event

The Pleiades, or Seven Sisters, is an often-observed star cluster named after an ancient Greek legend. New work indicates it is the core of

“We are calling this the Greater Pleiades Complex,” Bouma said. “It contains at least three previously known groups of stars, and likely two more. We were able to determine that most of the members of this structure originated in the same giant stellar nursery.”