Russian astronomers have conducted photometric observations of a unique extremely metal-poor luminous blue variable star known as DDO68-V1. Results of the observational campaign, published Jan.

By intense observation of a certain class of variable star, the cepheids, Leavitt discovered a direct correlation between the time it took a star to go from bright to dim to how bright it actually ...

In commemoration of Edwin Hubble's discovery of a Cepheid variable class star, called V1, in the neighboring Andromeda galaxy 100 years ago, astronomers partnered with the American Association of ...

Located some 1,400 light years away, GK Persei (also known as A 0327+43 or Nova Persei 1901) is a cataclysmic variable consisting of a magnetized white dwarf (WD) and a K2-type subgiant star with ...