Just east of Betelgeuse is the fine binocular cluster NGC 2244. But the much fainter Rosette Nebula that lies around the ...

This is not home to a lot of bright stars, but you can find the interesting variable binary Algol about 8 degrees to the northwest. (My undergraduate advisor discovered a third component to this ...

Also, during this time, new programming languages like FORTRAN, ALGOL, and COBOL were developed ... Some examples of Fourth Generation Computers are IBM PC, STAR 1000, APPLE II, Apple Macintosh, Alter ...

Astronomers measure star brightness using the magnitude scale. All the really bright stars we see are magnitude 1 or brighter. Stars in the Big Dipper are around magnitude 2 as is the North Star, ...

The Hubble Space Telescope has captured imagery of the R Aquarii binary star system from 2014-2023. The images have been time ...

Hypervelocity stars (HVSs) were first theorized to exist in the late 1980s. In 2005, the first discoveries were confirmed.

An international team of researchers has detected a binary star orbiting near Sagittarius A*, the supermassive black hole ...

With an assist from the NEID spectrograph, a team of astronomers have confirmed the existence of exoplanet Gaia-4b—one of the ...

The study analyzed the circumstellar disks of a pair of stars, learning about how planets are formed from some unexpected ...

Binary Star Found Near Our Galaxy's Supermassive Black Hole Dec. 17, 2024 — An international team of researchers has detected a binary star orbiting close to Sagittarius A*, the supermassive ...