Hubble Space Telescope Captures a Fascinating Cosmic Occurrence 'Blue Lurker' Star System 2,800 Light-Years From Earth In a ...

Determined to find ... Space Telescope observations of one of the brightest blue lurker stars in M67 — the results suggest it was, in fact, once part of a remarkable triple-star system.

The fast-spinning star provides a detailed look at the complicated family dynamics of multiple-star systems. "It's a good mid-evolution snapshot of this system, and maybe it will help us put ...

Dozens of boxes holding mirrors are placed along a remote desert hill in northern Chile as workers make progress in the ...

Like many other hobbies, astronomy can be ... mounts that automatically find and track heavenly bodies. Finding a feature is as easy as aligning to a few known stars and looking up the object ...

Venus and the brightest stars in the early evening sky. This year, I've spent most of the North American winter well below the equator in Chile and Argentina; first at an astronomy conference in ...