Only the brightest stars in the Pleiades cluster are visible to the naked eye. Thankfully this image was taken using long exposures through a telescope, so plenty of the 1,000-odd stars in the cluster are visible.
The pristine star formed outside the Milky Way and later drifted into our galaxy.
The collision likely resembles the one that formed the Moon around 4.5 billion years ago.
Without the mass stellar migration, life may not have been able to form on Earth.
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Venus may be hiding a vast network of underground caves carved by ancient lava.
A closer look at the planets around a star called LHS 1903 may just flip our understanding of how planetary systems form.
