Stellar Age
Roman Will Learn the Ages of Hundreds of Thousands of Stars
Astronomers routinely provide the ages of the stars they study. But the methods of measuring ages aren't 100% accurate. Measuring…
9 months ago
Astronomers Have a New Trick to Work out the Age of Stars
Determining the age of a star is surprisingly tricky and has wide error bars. It's only inside star clusters that…
1 year ago
How Old is That Star? Ask a Computer
A new machine learning technique could make it much easier to estimate the age of stellar populations.
1 year ago
A White Dwarf is Starting to Crystallize into Diamond
White dwarfs are the stellar remnants of stars like our Sun. They're strange objects, and astrophysicists think their cores can…
2 years ago
A New Technique to Figure Out How Old Stars Are
Our understanding of the universe, and of the Milky Way, is built on an edifice of individual pieces of knowledge,…
6 years ago
A Protostar’s Age Gleaned Only From Sound Waves
Precisely dating a star can have important consequences for understanding stellar evolution and any circling exoplanets. But it’s one of…
10 years ago