Stellar 'Swarms' (VIDEO)

Carnegie Institution for Science

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New work from Carnegie and the American Museum of Natural History identified nearly a thousand potential members and 31 confirmed members of stellar associations -- stars of similar ages and compositions that are drifting together through space -- in our own corner of the Milky Way.

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Visualization rendered by Dan Tell from the California Academy of Sciences using SCISS Uniview software and directed/written by Jackie Faherty from the American Museum of Natural History.

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