Astronomers have discovered the first pairs of white dwarf and main sequence stars -- 'dead' remnants and 'living' stars -- in young star clusters. This breakthrough offers new insights on an extreme ...

Lead author Neha Sharma emphasized the study’s significance, noting that “by studying their flickers, we can uncover how ...

What can binary stars comprised of two different types of stars teach astronomers about stellar evolution? This is what a recent study published in The Astrophysical Journal hopes to address as a team ...

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Blue straggler stars are the weird grandparents of the galaxy: They should be old, but they act young. Finding and studying these strange stars helps us understand the complicated life cycles of ...

Blue stars are by far the biggest and brightest stars in the galaxy. To the naked eye, the stars in the night sky all look very similar to each other, the main difference between them being that some ...

Stellar color is primarily determined by the star's surface temperature; hotter stars emit more blue light, while cooler stars emit more red light, mirroring the behavior of a propane flame. Stars are ...

The Sun's transition from the main sequence to the red giant phase is a gradual process, spanning approximately a billion years. This transition begins with a subgiant phase where core hydrogen fusion ...

The life of a star spans many years, anywhere from millions to billions. They all start the same way, though — as massive clouds of gas, dust, and various other types of debris. These clouds are ...