who graduated from Cornell University with a PhD in Philosophy and an MS in Astronomy, in 2007. "Basically, he looked at the stars in the sky and classified them by how bright they appear — the ...

Barnard-Seyfert Astronomical Society: The 90-year-old membership group for Nashville-area astronomy and space enthusiasts hosts star parties. Members set up their telescopes in parks and invite ...

Using a new technique, astronomers have documented one of the heaviest neutron stars known to science ... Researchers from the Astronomy and Astrophysics Group of the UPC and the Canary Islands ...

study co-author Brett Gladman, who is an astronomy professor at the ... now know of thousands of 'planets' orbiting other stars, but the IAU definition applies only to those in our solar system ...

Although the galaxy is more than 2 million light-years away, the Hubble telescope is powerful enough to resolve individual stars in a 61,000-light-year-long stretch of the galaxy’s pancake ...

Brown dwarfs are objects that typically are tens of times the mass of Jupiter and are too small to sustain nuclear fusion to shine as stars do ... it is not a planet by definition because planets ...

Things are always difficult at the boundaries. Given all that, it’s fair to say that an actual by-the-definition star with a lower mass than J0523 could be found. It’s entirely possible.

The combination of high resolution and infrared-detecting instruments on NASA's upcoming James Webb Space Telescope will reveal stars that are ... of modern-day astronomy: How fast is the universe ...

She takes over at an exciting time for citizen science and variable star astronomy, where the JAAVSO can be a major means of communication of scientific results from the AAVSO community.

In a first-of-its-kind discovery, the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) has detected water in the inner region of a disk of planet-forming gas and dust surrounding an infant star. The detection is ...