Stars
An Amazing Anniversary Image from the VLT
This Saturday will mark 15 years that the European Southern Observatory's Very Large Telescope (VLT) first opened its eyes on…
Seeing the Red of ‘La Superba,’ a Magnificent Springtime Carbon Star
The Universe can be a very gray place. But this week, we’ll look at a fine example of a class…
The White House Releases a Report on Space Weather
We live on a planet dominated by weather. But not just the kind that comes in the form of wind,…
Astronomers Hint that our Sun won’t Terminate as the Typical Planetary Nebula
Textbooks often cite that planetary nebulae (PNe, plural) represent an endstate for lower-mass single stars. But conversely, recent research suggests…
Looking Into The Green Eye Of Planetary Nebula IC 1295
Located on Cerro Paranal in the Atacama Desert of northern Chile, the ESO's Very Large Telescope was busy using the…
Kepler Team Identifies Planet Impostors that are Binary Stars in Disguise
Observations by the Kepler satellite have advanced our knowledge of stars and their orbiting planets, yielding more than 100 confirmed…
WISE Nabs the Closest Brown Dwarfs Yet Discovered
We now know our stellar neighbors just a little better, and a new discovery may help tell us how common…
12 Star Party Secret Weapons
We’ve all been there. Well OK, all public star party telescope operators have been there. You’re set up and you've got a stunning…
Greek Observatory Probes Ancient Star
Some 2,500 years ago, a Greek astronomer named Aristarchus certainly made some very correct assumptions when he postulated the Sun…
Nearby Ancient Star is Almost as Old as the Universe
A metal-poor star located merely 190 light-years from the Sun is 14.46+-0.80 billion years old, which implies that the star is…