... Notice that many of the nearby stars have numbers next to them — those numbers are the apparent magnitudes, to the nearest tenth of a magnitude, of the indicated stars. ...
... conception of a supermassive black hole (lower left) with its tremendous gravity capturing one star (bluish, center) from a pair of binary stars, while hurling the second star (yellowish, upper right) away at a hypervelocity of more than 1 million mph (1 ...
... The binary star system J0923+3028 consists of two white dwarfs: a visible star weighing 23 percent as much as our Sun and about 4 times the diameter of Earth, and an unseen companion weighing 44 percent of the Sun and about 1 Earth diameter in size. ...
... An enlargement of the boxed field in the top image reveals myriad stars and numerous open star clusters as bright blue knots ... nature apparently cooks up stars with a consistent distribution from massive stars to small stars (blue supergiants to red ...
... This spectacular group of young stars is the open star cluster NGC 3766 in the constellation of Centaurus the Centaur. ... stars by a group from the Geneva Observatory using the Swiss 1.2-meter Leonhard Euler Telescope at ESOтАЩs La Silla Observatory ...
... Because Proxima Centauri is the closest star to our Sun, its angular motion across the sky is relatively fast compared to much more distant background stars. ...
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... dusty material leftover from star formation girds two young stars like a hula hoop ... stars, two of which are surrounded by a disk of material left over from the star ...