Astronomers using Georgia State University's Center for High Angular Resolution Astronomy (CHARA) Array have found that ...

The more astronomers learn about the universe's earliest galaxies, the stranger they seem. Many of their surprising ...

Look up at the sky on a clear night, and you'll see thousands of stars – about 6,000 or so. But that's only a tiny fraction of all the stars out there. The rest are too far away for us to see them.

DENVER, Colo. — “Rocky Mountain High” by John Denver could be heard blaring inside the visitors’ dressing room. The Dallas Stars have a sense of humor — and why not after Friday night’s dramatic, ...

MEGATRON is a good guy!?! Well, at least to cosmologists who are using this simulation to transform our understanding of the ...

Made up of three of summer’s brightest stars, the Summer Triangle is an easy starting point for exploring—and photographing—the Milky Way and beyond.

Hubble observations of massive stars in metal-poor dwarf galaxies are revealing clues to why the early universe looks so unusual. Researchers found that stellar winds weaken sharply at extremely low ...

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One of the ironies of deep-sky imaging is that stars are generally not the stars of the show. Of course, there are exceptions with targets like open clusters. But for nebulae and other objects, the ...

DALLAS — And now we get the series we were supposed to get. Two bona fide Stanley Cup contenders taking swings at each other. But it was oh-so-close to a whole other story. “I mean, our season’s on ...

Our sun may be responsible for life on Earth, but stars across the galaxy are also responsible for creating a plethora of elements on the period table. These are some of the building blocks of life as ...