How new planets form near the Seven Sisters

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Color composite image of the Pleiades star cluster produced by Inseok Song of the Spitzer Science Center using montage software developed by IPACCalifornia Institute of Technology. An artists rendering of a collision in the Pleiades (inset) by Lynett ...
Color composite image of the Pleiades star cluster produced by Inseok Song of the Spitzer Science Center, using montage software developed by IPAC/California Institute of Technology. An artist's rendering of a collision in the Pleiades (inset), by Lynette R. Cook, for Gemini Observatory.

Rocky terrestrial planets, perhaps like Earth, Mars or Venus, appear to be forming or to have recently formed around a star in the Pleiades ("seven sisters") star cluster, the result of "monster collisions" of planets or planetary embryos.


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