New Observations Show that the Pleiades May be Harboring Earthlike Planets

Daily Galaxy ^ | Jan 23 09 | Daily Galaxy

[GSP.FAN]

Rocky terrestrial planets, perhaps like Earth, or Venus, appear to be forming or to have recently formed around a star in the Pleiades star cluster, according to astronomers using the Gemini Observatory in Hawaii and the Spitzer

[GSP.FAN]

My favourite open cluster..

[KevinDavis]

Pleiades Ho! So maybe those Norse like aliens maybe for real???

[SunkenCiv]

Thanks GSP.FAN and kevindavis.

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[cripplecreek]

Last week on The Universe, they were saying that Alpha Centauri is prime real estate for small rocky planets like earth.

[GSP.FAN]

Yeah but it is about 4 light years away. We have not got that engage thingy sorted out yet

[cripplecreek]

It sounds a lot closer if you say 1.34 parsecs.

[GSP.FAN]

Are we there yet?

[B-Chan]

The Seven Sister Stars.

[Sam Cree]

Dave, this seems interesting.

[GSP.FAN]

The seven sisters..

[B-Chan]

A registered trademark of Fuji Heavy Industries...

[uglybiker]

Some claim to have known this all along. ;-)

[Red Steel]

[prismsinc]

So Jehovah’s witness was right! God DID come from the Pleiades star system! /sarc

[happinesswithoutpeace]

/mark

[onedoug]

No G2V stars though, either in cluster, or individually. Not very good candidates for technological life.

[JoeFromSidney]

Note they haven't found any planets. Just dust that MAY have come from planets colliding. A lot less here than meets the eye.

[JRios1968]

It sounds a lot closer if you say 1.34 parsecs.

[Las Vegas Dave]

Thanks...it is interesting!

[GSP.FAN]

Yeah i know,wishful thinking on the authors behalf.
Anything to do with the Seven Sisters i love.