There are two 'sister' star clusters in the constellation Taurus the Bull. This week on Looking Up Bruce Bookout introduces us to the five daughters of Atlas... the Hyades. Over the last few years we ...

Look up tonight (March 15) to see the Hyades star cluster light up the Taurus constellation in the night sky. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s ...

Astronomers have discovered that the closest black holes to Earth may exist in the Hyades star cluster. Observations made with the Gaia satellite suggest that several black holes likely exist in this ...

Crisp winter nights bring us a glorious naked-eye treasure: the Hyades. This V-shaped gathering of suns has been recognized as a celestial bull since at least 4000 b.c., when the Sun resided among its ...

Recent research has revealed that three well-known star clusters — the Orion Nebula Cluster, the Pleiades, and the Hyades — are linked in a cosmic family tree. Though these clusters appear distinct ...

Tonight look at the 6-day-old moon high in the western sky. At 7:30 p.m. it is nearly 60 degrees above the western horizon. The moon will be the right angle in a triangle formed by the Pleiades on its ...

The closest cluster of stars to Earth is falling apart and will soon die, astronomers say. Using the Gaia spacecraft to measure velocities of stars in the Hyades cluster and those escaping from it, ...

Stephen has degrees in science (Physics major) and arts (English Literature and the History and Philosophy of Science), as well as a Graduate Diploma in Science Communication. Stephen has degrees in ...

The closest black holes to Earth ever detected have been found in the Hyades open cluster just 150 light-years distant. An open cluster is a loosely bound group of hundreds of similarly aged stars, ...

In Greek mythology, the Hyades sisters, daughters of Atlas, were so distraught at the death of their brother, that their tears of rain were transformed to a cluster of stars at the head of Taurus. The ...