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. Subscribe to our ...

We present the first analysis of results from the SuperWASP Variable Stars Zooniverse project, which is aiming to classify 1.6 million phase-folded light curves of candidate stellar variables observed ...

The southern autumn night sky is often referred to as the “wet quarter” because that’s where we find such constellations as Aquarius the Water-bearer; Pisces the Fish; and, most notorious of all, ...

Using the 104-cm Sampurnanand optical telescope, Indian astronomers have performed photometric observations of an open cluster named King 6, which resulted in the detection of three new variable stars ...

Humans are natural explorers. Once we were clothed, fed, and found shelter, we started wondering, “How does nature work? What’s around us? How did we come to be? What is our place in the universe?” To ...

What can star variability—changes in a star's brightness over time—teach astronomers about exoplanet habitability? This is what a recent study accepted for publication in The Astronomical Journal ...

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 ...