Astronomers from the Center of Astronomical and Space Education in Moscow report the discovery of a new star, which turned ...

Astronomers have teamed up with citizen scientists to discover a brand-new exploding star that's greedily feeding on a stellar companion.The newly observed binary system features a cataclysmic ...

NASA's Hubble Space Telescope captured a bright variable star, V 372 Orionis, and its companion in this festive image in this ...

The earliest observation of this strange star’s eccentric behavior was made by German astronomer David Fabricius in 1596, making it the first variable star ever discovered.

A new variable star of the Algol class of variables has just been discovered by Mr. Sawyer, a prominent member of the Boston Scientific Society. View Full Article in Timesmachine » ...

New kind of variable star discovered: Minute variations in brightness reveal whole new class of stars. ScienceDaily. Retrieved June 2, 2025 from www.sciencedaily.com / releases / 2013 / 06 ...

At its most basic level, variable-star observing is a simple task. First, locate the targeted variable in the sky. Next, find some nearby stars with known magnitudes, which will allow you to make ...

This week, the variable star Mira reaches its highest point, roughly halfway up in the southern sky at around 10 p.m. local time.

The sun itself is a variable star. Through the course of its 11-year cycle, the star's energy output varies by about 0.1 percent — one-thousandth of its magnitude, or brightness.

A previously unknown kind of variable star is on brilliant display 7,000 light-years from Earth in a new photo taken by a telescope in the Southern Hemisphere.

A NEW VARIABLE STAR DISCOVERED. Share full article. Dec. 19, 1886. Credit... The New York Times Archives. See the article in its original context from December 19, 1886, Page 6 Buy Reprints.