An Intragalactic Treasure Hunt: Red Giant Stars’ Mass “Stolen” by Stellar Neighbors
Red Giant Stars Undergo Dramatic Weight Loss Program A new, slimmer type of red giant star has been identified by astronomers, who liken their discovery…
Red Giant Stars Undergo Dramatic Weight Loss Program A new, slimmer type of red giant star has been identified by astronomers, who liken their discovery…
At first glance, it would seem to be impossible to look inside a star. An international team of astronomers, under the leadership of Earl Bellinger…
In a newly published study, scientists from the Max Planck Institute and the University of Göttingen measure the shape of Kepler 11145123 with unprecedented precision….
Even a super-Earth can fly too close to the sun, according to a new study from Yale University. An international team of astronomers has found…
Astronomers from the California Institute of Technology have probed the magnetic fields in the inner regions of stars for the first time, revealing that they…
A team of astronomers studying the surface vibrations in thirty-four young stars has found a clear relationship between seismic observables and evolutionary status, and in…
Data from Kepler has revealed a new Neptune-size exoplanet that is located in orbit around a star in a double-star system 425 light years from…
Using asteroseismic data obtained by the CoRoT space telescope, a team of scientists was able to measure the internal rotation of a Sun-like star and…
By using data from NASA’s Kepler spacecraft and asteroseismology, the study of stars by observing their natural oscillations, scientists discovered two planets circling a sub-giant…