One-Sided Pulsator: New Type of Pulsating Star Discovered After 40-Year Search
A star that pulses on just one side has been predicted in theory. But it took two simultaneous discoveries on opposite sides of our planet…
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Star Ejected by Supermassive Black Hole at Heart of Milky Way at Over 3.5 Million MPH [Video]
Runaway Star Ejected From the Galactic Heart of Darkness Astronomers have spotted an ultrafast star, traveling at a blistering 6 million km/h (~3.7 million m/h),…
Astronomers Explain Mystery Star’s Unusual Behavior
New research clarifies the mystery of the unusual fluctuations in light coming from distant star KIC 8462852. Sorry, E.T. lovers, but the results of a…
Hubble Image of the Week – Blue Bubble in Carina
This newly released Hubble image shows Wolf–Rayet star WR 31a. Sparkling at the center of this beautiful NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope image is a Wolf–Rayet…
Astronomers Discover a Giant Exoplanet and Four New Companion Stars
Using a new systematic radial velocity search for brown dwarf and stellar-mass companions to stars, astronomers from the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics have discovered one…
Spitzer and WISE Reveal Dozens of Runaway Stars
Using NASA’s Spitzer Space Telescope and Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer, astronomers are finding dozens of the fastest stars in our galaxy. When some speedy, massive…
Astronomers Discover a Jupiter-Like Storm on Star W1906+40
Using data from the Kepler and Spitzer Space Telescopes, astronomers reveal that the small star called W1906+40 has a giant storm much like Jupiter’s Great…
ESO Views Star Cluster IC 4651
This colorful image from the European Southern Observatory shows an open cluster of stars known as IC 4651, a stellar grouping that lies at in…
Hubble Views Globular Cluster Palomar 12
This newly released Hubble image shows a globular cluster of stars known as Palomar 12. Panta rhei is a simplified version of the famous greek…
Keck Interferometer Reveals Sun-Like Stars Not All That Dusty
Using the Keck Interferometer, new research shows that mature, sun-like stars appear to be, on average, not all that dusty. This is good news for…
