Hubble Space Telescope Captures a Fascinating Cosmic Occurrence 'Blue Lurker' Star System 2,800 Light-Years From Earth In a ...

The term "blue" is a bit of a misnomer because the star's color blends in with all the other solar-mass stars in the cluster. Hence it is sort of "lurking" among the common stellar population.

Hubble beholds brilliant blue star cluster: NGC 2031 contains a sizable population of Cepheid variable stars (at least 14), which are stars that brighten and dim periodically. The stellar grouping ...

The term "blue" is a bit of a misnomer because the star's color blends in with all the other solar-mass stars in the cluster. Hence it is sort of "lurking" among the common stellar population.

A rare breed of star recently discovered by the Hubble Space Telescope spins faster by feeding on its stellar siblings.

The open cluster Trumpler 14 contains some of the most massive and bright stars in our galaxy, and it is located 8,000 light-years away. This entire group is NGC 1858, an open star cluster located in ...

Although the blue lurker looks like a classic sunlike ... for a sprinkling of curiously speedy stars. "A typical star in the cluster is rotating around once every 25 days," Emily Leiner, an ...