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Pleiades open star cluster

The 125 Million year old Pleiades open star cluster, and the locations of 3 brown dwarfs discovered using the UKIDSS Galactic Cluster survey.

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New Results in X-ray Astronomy 2012

(12th September 2012)

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(23-24 April 2012)

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