Scientists using the James Webb and Hubble space telescopes have confirmed one of the biggest head-scratchers in modern ...

And deep in the Milky Way, lies a Cepheid star four times larger than the sun — but that’s not the shocker. Within that star, which is named V470 Cas, is a rich layer of lithium. Astronomers ...

The findings, published in The Astrophysical Journal, reveal new details about the star's size, appearance, and characteristics. Polaris, a Cepheid variable star, is the brightest member of a ...

Leavitt discovered 2,400 variable stars, about half of the known total in her day. Through these discoveries came her most important contribution to the field: the study of cepheid variable stars ...

At the Harvard College Observatory in years around 1900, women were hired to make measurements of astronomical data and do ...

In commemoration of Edwin Hubble's discovery of a Cepheid variable class star, called V1, in the neighboring Andromeda galaxy 100 years ago, astronomers partnered with the American Association of ...

In commemoration of Edwin Hubble's discovery of a Cepheid variable class star, called V1, in the neighboring Andromeda galaxy 100 years ago, astronomers partnered with the American Association of ...

Photo: Andromeda nebula plate with Hubble's handwritten circle around the variable star he discovered In 1919 American astronomer Edwin Hubble began work at the Mount Wilson Observatory in ...

She was particularly interested in Cepheid variables, which are stars whose brightness pulses regularly, so they get brighter and dimmer with a particular period. She found a relationship between ...

The Hayden Liberty Center, 111 W. 5th Street, will present Silent Sky (by Lauren Gunderson with original music by Jenny ...