Drout, now an assistant professor in the Department of Astronomy and Astrophysics at the University of Toronto ... “At this point, we’ve found a bunch [of stars], which is awesome, but now we want to ...
While astronomers have taken about two dozen zoomed-in images of stars in our galaxy, unveiling their properties, countless other stars dwell within other galaxies, so far away that observing even one ...
Astronomers have discovered the first pairs of white dwarf and main sequence stars -- 'dead' remnants and 'living' stars -- in young star clusters. This breakthrough offers new insights on an extreme ...
• Antares – “Scorpion’s Heart”, a giant red carbon star in Scorpius, found about 550 light-years away, and 10,000 times brighter than our sun! • M4 – a globular cluster of stars, discovered in 1746, ...