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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.
"Our approach gives astronomers an idea of how many spots a star might have, where they are located, and how bright or dark ...
WISPIT 2b, a gas giant forming around a young Sun-like star, has been directly imaged for the first time inside a spectacular ...
Astronomers at Leiden University have detected rare isotopes of carbon and oxygen in our neighboring stars for the first time ...
For decades, astronomers have wondered what the very first stars in the universe were like. These stars formed new chemical ...
Astronomers have imaged a huge expanding bubble of gas and dust surrounding a red supergiant star — the largest such bubble ...
For decades, astronomers have wondered what the very first stars in the universe were like. These stars formed new chemical ...
There are several candidates for the biggest star in the universe. One of them, VY Canis Majoris, is over 1,500 times the ...
Throughout the Earth’s precessional cycle, different stars serve as a pole star, including Thuban, Kochab, Polaris, and Vega.
The brightest fast radio burst ever detected could help reveal what celestial source causes the mysterious signals and if ...
Astrophysics combines physics and astronomy to explain everything from the smallest particles to the largest galaxy clusters.
Researchers describe the newly discovered binary system as a cosmic oddball. Stars often reach the end of their lives and ...