Classic novas typically appear in the night sky once a year at most, making the simultaneous appearance of two such events ...

ABSTRACT MK spectral classifications of over 2500 Case‐Hamburg luminous stars are examined to determine whether those for which Hα was reported in emission in the original surveys (but for which ...

During the Star Wars publishing panel at New York Comic Con in 2019, Lucasfilm teased Project Luminous again with the message, “The Force is what gives a Jedi his power. It’s an energy field ...

Astronomers have spotted another never-before-seen "nova" blaze to life in the night sky. This may be the first time that simultaneous stellar explosions have been visible to the naked eye in recorded ...

Specifically, the luminosity of a star is proportional to temperature to the fourth power. For instance, if two stars are the same size but one is twice as hot as the other in kelvin, the former ...

An extremely luminous and hot blue star with a mass about 25 times that of the sun orbits with this black hole in a stellar marriage. This so-called binary system is named VFTS 243.

Astronomers have known about LBV 1806-20 since the 1990s. At that time, it was identified as a "luminous blue variable star"; a relatively rare, massive and short-lived star. LBV 1806-20 is a ...

Scientists on Monday unveiled observations by the James Webb Space Telescope showing new details about such features around a luminous star called Fomalhaut in our own neighborhood of the Milky ...

The farthest star ever detected, located behind what NASA describes as "a wrinkle in space-time," is more than twice as hot as the sun and about a million times more luminous.