By intense observation of a certain class of variable star, the cepheids, Leavitt discovered a direct correlation between the time it took a star to go from bright to dim to how bright it actually ...

Russian astronomers have conducted photometric observations of a unique extremely metal-poor luminous blue variable star known as DDO68-V1. Results of the observational campaign, published Jan. 28 ...

The Department of Physics and Astrophysics’ Astronomy Public Talks proceeded with presenter Robert Moore’s, the Department’s general physical lab supervisor, lecture about different types of variable ...