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Astronomers discover thousands of hidden siblings of the “Seven Sisters”


The “Seven Sisters” have far more relatives than anyone imagined. Using NASA and ESA space telescopes, astronomers found thousands of hidden stars linked to the Pleiades, forming a colossal stellar complex. The discovery expands the cluster’s size by a factor of 20 and offers a new way to trace the shared origins of stars—including our own Sun.

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