"Our approach gives astronomers an idea of how many spots a star might have, where they are located, and how bright or dark ...

Researchers describe the newly discovered binary system as a cosmic oddball. Stars often reach the end of their lives and ...

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Throughout the Earth’s precessional cycle, different stars serve as a pole star, including Thuban, Kochab, Polaris, and Vega.

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Astronomers at Leiden University have detected rare isotopes of carbon and oxygen in our neighboring stars for the first time ...

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For decades, astronomers have wondered what the very first stars in the universe were like. These stars formed new chemical ...

An international team of astronomers, co-led by researchers at the University of Galway, has made the unexpected discovery of ...

But the newly discovered supernova, dubbed SN 2021yfj, displayed a startling different chemical signature containing silicon, ...

The Ancient City Astronomy Club is hosting an event called Night Under the Stars from 8 p.m. to 9:30 p.m. Friday at the St.

Touch the Stars is like an introductory astronomy book that would be good for, you know, anyone who is age eight and up, because it has all sorts of typical astronomy images.