The team also mapped out all the positions of
the brightest nearby cluster stars and was able to detect very small motions as the stars slowly revolved around each other.
Not exact matches
Exoplanets have also been found in the past two years in the
clusters NGC 6811 and Messier 44, and even more recently one has also been detected in the
bright and
nearby Hyades
cluster.
The
brightest object in a
nearby star
cluster, thought for decades to be a single star, is actually two massive stars in the process of merging.
First, the
cluster is
nearby, so its galaxies are
bright and many of them have measured velocities.