In a groundbreaking development, a team of astronomers, in collaboration with citizen scientists, has uncovered a new and exciting type of exploding star, GOTO0650, marking a major achievement in both ...

Citizen scientists using the Kilonova Seekers platform spotted a stellar flash 2,500 times brighter than before, allowing astronomers to identify the exploding cataclysmic variable GOTO0650 within ...

One of the best places to study stars is inside “open clusters”, which are groups of stars that formed together from the same material and are bound together through gravity. Open clusters act as ...

The constellation Leo, containing the bright star Regulus (α Leonis), is visible in the southwest after sunset. R Leonis, a Mira-type variable star and the first such star identified in Leo, is ...

First detected more than four centuries ago, highly evolved stars known as Mira variables have long been observationally neglected by most of the professional astronomical community. That’s even ...

Astronomers using the Swiss 1.2-metre Euler telescope at ESO’s La Silla Observatory in Chile have found a new type of variable star. The discovery was based on the detection of very tiny changes in ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Amanda Kooser covers the quirky side of science and space. NASA and ESA's Hubble Space Telescope captured a view of three stars ...

Article ‘Count’ and ‘Share’ for Variable Stars South based on listed parameters only. According to the parameters selected above, there are no articles from Variable Stars South from 1 September 2024 ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Astronomers in Italy and Germany have turned to some of the oldest stars in the Milky Way to estimate the true age of the Universe ...