The new results, from a team led by Grzegorz Pietrzyski (Universidad de Concepcion, Chile, Obserwatorium Astronomiczne Uniwersytetu Warszawskiego, Poland), appear in the 25 November 2010 edition of ...

For decades, astronomers have listened to the stars' beating hearts. The stellar music is not only cosmically soothing, but it also provides scientists with crucial data on the internal structure of ...

A group of scientists discoverd a very old pulsating star inside a double star system, giving them new insights into how such celetial bodies grow and die. Finding a pulsating white star means that ...

UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa. – A new type of pulsating star has been discovered. Penn State saysits researchers were part of an international team that found the star, which has a brightness that oscillates ...

An international team of astronomers has unraveled new insights about an object at the center of a cosmic mystery — a pulsar that appears to constantly change in brightness. Now, the scientists think ...

A star that pulsates on just one side has been discovered in the Milky Way about 1500 light years from Earth. It is the first of its kind to be found and scientists expect to find many more similar ...

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