Nearest Star Cluster to Earth is Being RIPPED APART By Something Massive We Can’t See
- Nearest Star Cluster to Earth is Being RIPPED APART By Something Massive We Can’t See
by https://www.rt.com/
New analysis of data from one of humanity’s most powerful space observatories, Gaia, suggests that the nearest star cluster to Earth is being torn asunder by the phenomenal gravity of a massive object we cannot see.
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Astronomer Tereza Jerabkova and her colleagues from the European Space Agency and the European Southern Observatory pored over the information contained in Gaia Data Release 2.5 (DR2.5) and DR3.
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The Gaia space observatory maps the Milky Way galaxy in three dimensions with the highest degree of detail that current-generation technology will allow, with a view to pinpointing the position and velocity data of as many stars as possible.
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Following detailed analysis of this raw data, the researchers noticed something peculiar about the spherical star cluster Hyades, located some 153 light-years away in the constellation Taurus.
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