Astronomers have found the fastest spinning star ever discovered. The hot blue giant rotates at a dizzying 1 million mph (1.6 million km/h), or 100 times faster than our Sun. The star is close to the ...

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Neutron stars explained through the final moments of massive stars reveal some of the most extreme objects in the universe. When stars between eight and twenty times the Sun's mass exhaust their ...

New ultraviolet observations indicate a Milky Way star is spinning nearly 200 times faster than Earth’s sun, the probable result of a merger between two sun-like stars whose binary orbit recently ...

On the surface, the 2021-22 Dallas Stars goalie "situation" looks like a bit of a mess. The organization started with three veteran goalies and a youngster in the minors and then had to make a trade ...

A comparison of a young (top) and old (bottom) galaxy observed as part of the SAMI Galaxy Survey. Panels on the left are regular optical images from the Subaru Telescope. In the middle are rotational ...

How does a star affect the makeup of its planets? And what does this mean for the habitability of distant worlds? Carnegie's ...

STONY BROOK, N.Y. — Vega, the second brightest star in the northern sky, is a ‘standard’ that has been used to calibrate astronomical observations from the ultraviolet through to the infrared, and it ...

The KELT project was originally designed as a small-aperture, wide-field photometric survey that would be optimally sensitive to planets transiting bright (V~8-10) stars. This magnitude range ...