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It Takes Very Special Conditions to Create This Bizarre Stellar Spectacle
A stellar odd couple 700 light-years away is creating a chaotically beautiful display of colourful, gaseous filaments. The Hubble captured…
Hubble Sees a Brand New Triple Star System
In a world that seems to be switching focus from the Hubble Space Telescope to the James Webb Space Telescope,…
Why Do Red Giants Expand?
We know that the Sun will last another 5 billion years and then expand us a red giant. What will…
What’s Going On Inside This New Kind of Variable Star?
A new kind of variable star -- 36 of that type, in fact -- has been found in a single…
Weekly SkyWatcher’s Forecast: October 22-28, 2012
Greetings, fellow SkyWatchers! It's going to be a great week to enjoy lunar studies, but why don't we take a…
Red Giant Brightness Variations Still Mysterious
[/caption] Like everything else in the Universe, stars get old. As they become older, stars like our own Sun "puff…
VY Canis Majoris
Of all known stars, the VY Canis Majoris is the largest. This red Hypergiant star, found in the constellation Canis…