A New Class of Variable Stars Discovered in NGC 3766
A newly published study details the discovery of a new type of variable star in the open cluster NGC 3766, which lies about 7,000 light-years…
A newly published study details the discovery of a new type of variable star in the open cluster NGC 3766, which lies about 7,000 light-years…
Researchers used ESO’s Very Large Telescope to carefully study the light coming from stars in the globular star cluster NGC 6752, finding that all of…
Using the Subaru Telescope, the CFHT and NASA’s GALEX, astronomers reveal unprecedented views of the star formation process of a Blue Supergiant star located in…
Using NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope, astronomers have found that HD 140283 is the oldest known star with a well-determined age, forming soon after the Big…
NASA’s Spitzer Space Telescope captured an image of Zeta Ophiuchi, a star that is traveling at 54,000 mph and is about six times hotter, eight…
Vega is situated in the constellation Lyra, 25 light-years away from Earth, and it is the fifth brightest star in the sky. In 1983, astronomers…
Astronomers discovered dust around an unusual class of interacting binary stars, a highly magnetic white dwarf star that is Earth-sized but weighs about 60 percent…
In a new study, an international team of scientists established that the rate of star formation in the Universe is now only 1/30th of what…
A newly published study encompasses thirty years of research on hypergiant HR 8752, a star that is roughly 250 times brighter than our Sun and…
Using the Herschel Space Telescope and a method known as raytracing, a team of scientists produced a 3-D map of the dark cloud Barnard 68…
A team of international astronomers, aided by volunteer scientists using the Planethunters.org website, discovered a circumbinary planet in a four-star system, called PH1. The discovery…
A team of scientists discovered a star called S0-102 that orbits the black hole at the center of our Milky Way galaxy in 11.5 years….
Using complex direct N-body simulations, scientists believe they solved the mystery of ultramassive stars of cluster R136 in the Tarantula nebula, discovering that the stars…
By targeting super-thin aluminum with X-rays at LCLS, scientists were able to analyze and pinpoint how much energy it takes to knock electrons from highly…
In a new study, a team of astronomers set out to evaluate the accuracy of the spectral energy distribution (SED) models, finding that the models…
Using ESO’s Very Large Telescope to study a sample of 71 O-type single stars and stars in pairs in six nearby young star clusters in…
While studying TW Hydrae, a relatively young star in the TW Hydrae stellar association, astronomers were able to track an accretion flare spectroscopically, providing direct…
A new image from the European Space Agency’s Herschel Space Observatory shows Vela C, a massive star nursery that is 2,300 light-years from the Sun…