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> Michell was also the first to apply the new mathematics of statistics to astronomy. By studying how the stars are distributed on the sky, he showed that many
by shusaku 3y ago
> Michell was also the first to apply the new mathematics of statistics to astronomy. By studying how the stars are distributed on the sky, he showed that many more stars appear as pairs or groups than could be accounted for by random alignments. He argued that these were real systems of double or multiple stars bound together by their mutual gravity. This was the first evidence for the existence of physical associations of stars.
What is our modern understanding of this? Are there kinds of local clusters you could detect with the naked eye?
- mathren 3y agoA very recent review from reputable young researchers in this specific subfield: https://arxiv.org/abs/2311.01865 https://arxiv.org/abs/2311.01865 For naked eye clusters look up pleiadis in the northern emisphere and LMC/SMC in the south, and then you can use stellarium (see other HN post)