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Potsdam, Germany (SPX) Mar 01, 2023 Astronomers from the Leibniz Institute for Astrophysics Potsdam (AIP) and the Vatican Observatory (VO) teamed up to spectroscopically survey more than 1000 bright stars [...]

Guizhou, China (SPX) Dec 13, 2022 Many bright stars gather in the night sky and form a Milky Way across the sky. It is our home galaxy in the vast [...]

New York NY (SPX) Dec 13, 2022 In a forward-looking article, George Church, PhD, from Harvard University and the Wyss Institute, proposes the use of picogram to nanogram-scale probes that [...]

Birmingham UK (SPX) Dec 08, 2022 A highly unusual blast of high-energy light from a nearby galaxy has been linked by scientists to a neutron star merger. The event, detected [...]

Boston MA (SPX) Nov 18, 2022 A new study has revealed the true shape of the diffuse cloud of stars surrounding the disk of our galaxy. For decades, astronomers have [...]

Baltimore MD (SPX) Nov 17, 2022 NASA's James Webb Space Telescope has revealed the once-hidden features of the protostar within the dark cloud L1527, providing insight into the beginnings of [...]

Bonn, Germany (SPX) Oct 27, 2022 An international team of astrophysicists has made a puzzling discovery while analyzing certain star clusters. The University of Bonn played a major role in [...]

Baltimore MD (SPX) Oct 20, 2022 This glittering view of the Pillars of Creation was delivered by NASA's James Webb Space Telescope's Near-Infrared Camera - and it begs to be [...]

Bologna, Italy (SPX) Jun 23, 2022 Asteroseismology - one of the most fascinating and sophisticated methods for measuring the mass of stars, and by extension, their age - can also [...]

Hatfield UK (SPX) Apr 15, 2022 The Hubble Space Telescope has observed the most distant star ever seen - Earendel, meaning morning star. Even though Earendel is 50 times the [...]

University Park PA (SPX) Mar 23, 2022 he number of sunspots on our Sun typically ebbs and flows in a predictable 11-year cycle, but one unusual 70-year period when sunspots [...]

Tubingen, Germany (SPX) Feb 15, 2022 A team of German astronomers, led by Professor Klaus Werner of the University of Tubingen, have discovered a strange new type of star covered [...]

Leuven, Belgium (SPX) Feb 02, 2022 Planets are usually not much older than the stars around which they revolve. Take the Sun: it was born 4.6 billion years ago, and [...]

Byline: Staff Writers Boston MA (SPX) Aug 16, 2019, 2019 Scientists at the Center for Astrophysics | Harvard and Smithsonian have announced the discovery of the most massive star ever [...]

Byline: Bill Steigerwald for GSFC News Greenbelt MD (SPX) Mar 11, 2019, 2019 Scientists looking for signs of life beyond our solar system face major challenges, one of which is [...]

Byline: Staff WritersUniversity Park PA (SPX) Jan 22, 2019, 2019 A new method to measure the temperature of atoms during the explosive death of a star will help scientists understand [...]

Byline: Staff WritersParis (SPX) Dec 27, 2018, 2018 ESA's technical centre in the Netherlands has begun running a pulsar-based clock. The 'PulChron' system measures the passing of time using millisecond-frequency [...]

On the edge of a parking lot at the Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Alabama, stands a relic from a time when our future as a spacefaring species looked [...]

For nearly a decade, Andrea M. Ghez has tracked the motion of stars at the Milky Way's core. The great speed with which these centrally located stars whirl around provides [...]

Scientists have found a black hole and a Be-type star, whose surface spins at more than 620,000 mph (1 million km/h), orbiting each other. They describe the duo in the [...]

While hunting for signals or classifying objects, Zooniverse volunteers often come across strange, unexpected finds that yield surprising new scientific results. Here are just a few. TABBY'S STAR KIC 8462852, [...]

An international team of researchers has announced the discovery of the most distant star ever observed, nicknamed Icarus. The team, whose study was published April 2 in Nature Astronomy, detected [...]

An Astronomy & Astrophysics study published online January 7 suggests a previously unknown companion star could explain why the aging star HD 62623 has a dusty disk around it--a trait [...]

Just like NASA, we really wanted to grab your attention, so we illustrated this page with a dinosaur IT WAS a great piece of legerdemain and the more I examined [...]

For the first time, astronomers have uncovered newborn stars at the galactic center. These three stars are less than 1 million years old and have just ignited; they're still embedded [...]

THE MOST DISTANT STARS discovered in the Milky Way's outer reaches might have been ripped away from a companion galaxy. Over the last decade, multiple groups of astronomers, including the [...]

Stars, planets, and other celestial objects generally bulge out along their equators as they spin. But Laurent Gizon (Max Planck Institute for Solar System Research, Germany) and colleagues have now [...]

Fruit can't grow in space, but scientists from Japan have discovered the next best thing. Using a telescope on Earth, they've spotted two large features that look like bright yellow, […]

Only 13 light-years away lies a unique star that holds clues to the formation of our galaxy: Kapteyn's Star. A refugee from the galactic halo, this star is one of [...]

The Helix Nebula (NGC 7293) in Aquarius shows what the Sun may look like 5 to 6 billion years from now. When a Sun-like star nears the end of its [...]

Byline: Andrew Fazekas Small Like Us Planets found outside of our solar system tend to be mammoth orbs more than 15 times as large as Jupiter. It's not that rocky [...]

MOFFETT FIELD, Calif., April 19 (SPX) -- Maggie Turnbull, an astronomer with the Carnegie Institution, has spent many years thinking about what kind of stars could harbor Earth-like planets. Her [...]

Byline: Staff Writers HAMBURG, Germany, April 14 (SPX) -- An international team of astronomers has reported the discovery of a star, HE1327-2326, which sets a new record for being the [...]

MOFFETT FIELD, Calif., April 12 (SPX) -- Maggie Turnbull, an astronomer with the Carnegie Institution, has spent many years thinking about what kind of stars could harbor Earth-like planets. Her [...]

The dusty disk surrounding the star AU Microscopium contains clumps, bumps, asymmetries, and a warp. According to astronomer Michael Liu (University of Hawaii), who studied the star and its disk [...]

Amateur astronomer Jay McNeil noticed a new, bright spot near M78 in Orion in January 2004. Studied by professional telescopes, McNeil's Nebula turns out to be a newly formed star [...]