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"Our approach gives astronomers an idea of how many spots a star might have, where they are located, and how bright or dark ...
Pune: Anyone fascinated by the night sky full of stars has likely wondered their distance from Earth. A recent study led by ...
Professor Bhardwaj and his team have studied 40 oxygen-rich Mira stars in 18 clusters of stars in the Milky Way galaxy ...
But what about the stars? Might this same technique work to measure their distances? Of course, the best way to answer that question is to try it, but I’ll save you some time.
Even with eclipsing binaries, measuring the properties of stars is no easy task. Stars are deformed as they rotate and pull on each other in a binary system. They interact, they irradiate one another, ...
The European Space Agency-led Solar Orbiter mission has split the flood of energetic particles flung out into space from the ...
That cosmologists cannot agree on one of the most elementary facts about the universe is striking enough. But that ...
When it comes to cosmology, answering one question only leads to more. Just take light. Chanda Prescod-Weinstein dives into a reader's question ...
Solar Orbiter reveals two distinct sources of energetic electrons from the Sun, improving space weather understanding.
James Talarico, 36, who has emerged as a rising star in the party thanks in part to his efforts ... but Republicans voted ...
A research team has used both archival Hubble Space Telescope data and new observations to precisely measure the binary star system NGC3603-A1. One star weighs about 93 times the mass of our sun, ...
Three new stations will serve the growing, working-class suburbs south of Seattle-Tacoma International Airport.