August 29, 2017

The Pleiades seen by the Kepler Space Telescope (Image NASA / Aarhus University / T. White)

An article published in the journal “Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society” describes the most detailed study ever made on the variability of the Pleiades. A team of astronomers led by Dr. Tim White of the Stellar Astrophysics Center at the Danish University of Aarhus used a new algorithm to improve the observations made by NASA’s Kepler Space Telescope in its K2 mission.