This story originally appeared on WIRED en Español and has been translated from Spanish. August has delivered many spectacular sights in the night sky: a supermoon, meteor showers, and supercharged …
For the more than 100,000 years humans have been on Earth, we have looked up at night and seen the stars and our celestial home, the Milky Way galaxy. Cultures …
The Stars kept their Game 3 lineup decisions close to their chest at morning skate Saturday with coach Pete DeBoer announcing that both Mason Marchment and Radek Faksa will be …
In Memoriam: Adam Harrison of ‘Pawn Stars’ legacy Adam Harrison, son of ‘Pawn Stars’ Rick Harrison, has passed away at 39 from a suspected drug overdose. The cause of death …
Award-winning astrophotographer Mihail Minkov is best known for his landscape images that heavily feature the night sky and the Milky Way in particular. Over the past year, Minkov has been …
“We know from direct imaging searches of young stars that very few stars have giant planets in [wide] orbits,” Bate said. “It is difficult to accept that there were many large …
NGC 2210 | Credit: ESA/Hubble and NASA, A. Sarajedini, F. Niederhofer A striking new Hubble image shows NGC 2210, a marvelous globular cluster in the Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC). The …
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That was a surprise—and a possible indication that something crucial was missing in those models: magnetism. Stellar Symmetry Last year, Gang Li, an asteroseismologist now at KU Leuven, went digging …
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To make maps of these structures, astronomers turn to individual stars. Each star’s composition records its birthplace, age, and natal ingredients, so studying starlight enables a form of galactic cartography—as …