This story originally appeared on WIRED en Español and has been translated from Spanish. August has delivered many spectacular sights in the night sky: a supermoon, meteor showers, and supercharged …
The grandfather of it all is Italy-born Angelo Gobbato, a former singer who co-founded the company five years after apartheid ended and who was honoured in March with a lifetime …
Producers of several fantasy Korean dramas are seducing major stars, while a big director is assembling a cast of well-known acolytes for an intriguing new show. Find out about these …
Lizzo says she is “quitting” — seemingly the music industry — months after her former backup dancers accused her of sexual harassment, body-shaming and creating a hostile work environment in a …
Our universe is full of stars. Scientists estimate that there are up to one septillion stars in the universe and that at least one in 12 of those stars are …
Astronomers spotted a “metal scar” on a white dwarf star found within our galaxy. After closer observation, the astronomers say the scar could be the remains of a destroyed planet …
“We know from direct imaging searches of young stars that very few stars have giant planets in [wide] orbits,” Bate said. “It is difficult to accept that there were many large …
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That was a surprise—and a possible indication that something crucial was missing in those models: magnetism. Stellar Symmetry Last year, Gang Li, an asteroseismologist now at KU Leuven, went digging …
BOULDER — Kenny Smith pulled a smartphone out of his pocket and scrolled for a miracle. “My daughter, who doesn’t follow college football, if you asked her, who did Denver …
To make maps of these structures, astronomers turn to individual stars. Each star’s composition records its birthplace, age, and natal ingredients, so studying starlight enables a form of galactic cartography—as …