Radio telescopes settle controversy over distance to Pleiades

Thursday, August 28, 2014 - 13:00 in Astronomy & Space

Astronomers have used a worldwide network of radio telescopes to resolve a controversy over the distance to a famous star cluster—a controversy that posed a potential challenge to scientists' basic understanding of how stars form and evolve. The new work shows that the measurement made by a cosmic-mapping research satellite was wrong.

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