In this visualization of stars observed by ESA's Gaia mission, the "frequency of the rotating and pulsating stars was ...

Astronomers have found the fastest spinning star ever discovered. The hot blue giant rotates at a dizzying 1 million mph (1.6 million km/h), or 100 times faster than our Sun. The star is close to the ...

New ultraviolet observations indicate a Milky Way star is spinning nearly 200 times faster than Earth’s sun, the probable result of a merger between two sun-like stars whose binary orbit recently ...

STONY BROOK, N.Y. — Vega, the second brightest star in the northern sky, is a ‘standard’ that has been used to calibrate astronomical observations from the ultraviolet through to the infrared, and it ...

A comparison of a young (top) and old (bottom) galaxy observed as part of the SAMI Galaxy Survey. Panels on the left are regular optical images from the Subaru Telescope. In the middle are rotational ...