A glance at the night sky above Earth shows that some stars are much brighter than others. However, the brightness of a star depends on its composition and how far it is from the planet. Astronomers ...

Stars come in all colors and sizes. But our eyes limit us to seeing very few of those colors. And the range of apparent magnitudes of stars we can see with our naked eye is also rather limited.

The birth of massive stars is still a mystery to us. This is because these stars are embedded in an extremely dense medium of gas and dust, says Rolf Kuiper, the leader of the Emmy Noether Research ...

An observational technique with the Carnegie image tube is described which results in relative spectrophotometry for very faint stars. It is found that a 40-inch (1.02-m) telescope with an image-tube ...

Scientists at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) have been working to improve methods for calibrating standard stars for more than a decade. Standard stars – or “standard ...

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The birth of massive stars is still a mystery to us, because these stars are embedded in an extremely dense medium of gas and dust, says Rolf Kuiper, the leader of the Emmy Noether Research Group for ...

Astronomers are investigating the basic principles of the formation of stars. The birth of massive stars is still a mystery to us, because these stars are embedded in an extremely dense medium of gas ...