For the past 10 years, under the guiding hand of Editor-in-Chief Professor John Percy (University of Toronto), the Journal of the American Association of Variable Star Observers (JAAVSO) has ...

First detected more than four centuries ago, highly evolved stars known as Mira variables have long been observationally neglected by most of the professional astronomical community. That’s even ...

The constellation Leo, containing the bright star Regulus (α Leonis), is visible in the southwest after sunset. R Leonis, a Mira-type variable star and the first such star identified in Leo, is ...

Looking like a glittering cosmic geode, a trio of dazzling stars blaze from the hollowed-out cavity of a reflection nebula in a new image from NASA's Hubble Space Telescope. The triple-star system is ...

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. Open clusters act as ...

This NASA Hubble Space Telescope image shows a triple-star star system. NASA, ESA, G. Duchene (Universite de Grenoble I); Image Processing: Gladys Kober (NASA/Catholic University of America) A ...

Using ESO’s Very Large Telescope Interferometer, astronomers from France and Brazil have detected a huge cloud of dust around a star. This observation is further evidence for the theory that such ...

We present the first results from Citizen ASAS-SN, a citizen science project for the All-Sky Automated Survey for Supernovae (ASAS-SN) hosted on the Zooniverse platform. Citizen ASAS-SN utilizes the ...

Studying pulsing Cepheid stars offers a cosmic yardstick by which to measure the universe. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works.

The Hubble Space Telescope is one of the great achievements in modern astronomy, still producing stunning and scientifically valuable images after more than 30 years of operation. Each week, ...