Astronomers Detect Magnetic Fields on Solar-Type Stars
A team of astronomers has just completed the most extensive polarization survey of stars to date, detecting magnetic fields on sixty-seven stars with twenty-one of…
A team of astronomers has just completed the most extensive polarization survey of stars to date, detecting magnetic fields on sixty-seven stars with twenty-one of…
Using the Hubble Space Telescope and the Spitzer Space Telescope, a team of astronomers studied the first few billion years of the universe to determine…
Using a new technique for measuring the age of a star using its spin, astronomers reveal the gyrochronological ages of 22 Sun-like stars. Defining what…
A team of astronomers used the Hubble Space Telescope to measure the average motion of hundreds of individual stars over a seven-year period, revealing for…
A newly published study details the discovery of a new class of “hypervelocity stars” – stars that are moving at speeds of more than a…
In a newly published study, researchers from the University of Rochester use computer simulations to show how the stars at the center of the Milky…
Astronomers have completed the largest-ever survey of dense gas clouds in the Milky Way, cataloging and mapping more than 6,000 gas clouds and allowing astronomers…
A newly discovered jet of high-energy particles emanating from a dying star has helped scientists better understand how stars begin their final transformation. An international…
This newly released Hubble image shows the star HD 184738. This new image, snapped by NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope, shows the star HD 184738, also…
Using ESO’s Very Large Telescope, astronomers have identified the star HIP 102152 as the oldest solar twin known to date. An international team led by…
Astronomers at Vanderbilt have developed a new flicker technique to measure the surface gravity of distant stars. The technique can also be used to significantly…
While studying subdwarf stars, a team of astronomers discovered two unusual stars with extremely high concentrations of lead in their atmospheres. They estimate that the…
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…
Using the Hubble Space Telescope to track the orbital motion of over 30,000 stars in globular cluster 47 Tucanae, astronomers have revealed a link between…
A newly released Hubble image shows the remains of a star known as planetary nebula IC 289. This NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope image shows the…
New research presented at the 10th Edoardo Amaldi Conference on Gravitational Waves suggests that stellar collisions between massive stars with masses between 200 and 300…
A newly published study describes recent observations of the remnant of a stellar collision, revealing that the remnant of the stripped red giant is a…
Using the 2.1-meter Otto Struve Telescope, a team of astronomers have discovered pulsations from the crystalized remnant of the burnt-out star GD 518. Austin —…