It’s a section of the sky that Mark Pecaut, Ph.D., associate professor of physics , is well familiar with. Since his days as a doctoral student at the University of Rochester, Pecaut has been studying a particular group of stars in the night sky. And even after several publications, conference presentations, and undergraduate research projects led using the same group of stars, it turns out there’s still plenty to learn. Pecaut is one of a number of co-authors on a new paper detailing an exciting discovery that builds on the work builds on the work he and others have done...