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Gould Belt

  • Gould BeltJohn Herschel and Benjamin Gould first reported the ring of stars in the 19th century. They observed a local concentration of bright objects within our…
  • Taurus molecular cloudThe Taurus molecular cloud sits 140 parsecs from Earth. That distance equals roughly 430 light years. It stands as possibly the nearest large star formation…