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Planets Found in a Cluster of Buzzing Stars

Wednesday, September 19, 2012 9:41
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Artist's illustration of a planet within a cluster. Image credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech

Artist’s illustration of a planet within a cluster. Image credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech

There’s a classic science fiction story called Nightfall, written by the late-great Isaac Asimov. It’s the tale of a world with six suns that fill the sky with such brightness that the inhabitants have no concept of night. And then one day, a once-in-a-thousand-years alignment causes all the stars to set at once; and everyone goes crazy!

In another case of science following science fiction, NASA-funded astronomers have discovered planets orbiting within a dense cluster of stars called the Beehive Cluster; a collection of 1,000 stars collected around a common center of gravity – Nightfall worlds?!
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