collaborators Elizabeth Waltman of the Naval Research Laboratory, and Frank Ghigo of the National Radio Astronomy Observatory (NRAO). "This long-term survey was critical to our understanding of the ...

A giant star, 25 times the size of the sun, has started to run out of a precious element, hydrogen. To sustain its mass, a star fuses vast amounts of hydrogen in its core, slowly making new elements, ...

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 ...

Researchers at Nagoya University in Japan have conducted the most detailed simulation of the interior of stars and disproved a theory scientists have believed for 45 years: that stars switch their ...

Your hosts will discuss nebulae, the colors and behaviors of stars, and what can happen when they reach the end of their life, along with live views from their research-grade 16" telescope (weather ...