What can binary stars comprised of two different types of stars teach astronomers about stellar evolution? This is what a recent study published in The Astrophysical Journal hopes to address as a team ...

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Astronomers have combined hundreds of thousands of Spitzer Space Telescope images into a map of the whole Large Magellanic Cloud. They see features throughout the galaxy in such sharp detail that they ...

CHARLOTTESVILLE The antique map displayed in the window of a print shop in Heidelberg, Germany, was only half the size of a standard sheet of paper. Still, one particular word on the map caught the ...