Two nearby explosive massive star deaths, or supernovas, may have triggered mass extinction events in Earth's distant past, ...

For example, the Sun has a magnitude of -26.7 which is, really, pretty luminous as most other objects outside our planet Earth. Comparing this, more distant stars might have magnitudes larger than ...

The Large Magellanic Cloud is a dwarf galaxy residing near our Milky Way, visible to the naked eye as a luminous patch of ...

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The brighter the star is overall, the longer the period of luminosity. Since the cepheids in the Magellanic Clouds were all about the same distance from Earth, Leavitt concluded that the period ...