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A distance of 133-137 parsecs to the Pleiades star cluster

Kulkarni, S. R.; Shao, M.; Pan, Xiaopei

Nearby `open' clusters of stars (those that are not gravitationally bound) have played a crucial role in the development of stellar astronomy because, as a consequence of the stars having a common age, they provide excellent natural laboratories to test theoretical stellar models. Clusters also play a fundamental part in determining distance scale…