Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. An image of the Cepheid variable star RS Puppis. An image of the Cepheid variable star RS Puppis. The most accurate observation to ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A visual showing various galaxies in pink and blue getting smaller as they go deeper into the image. There's a ladder tracing them ...

Comparison of simulation of three main star forming episodes in the spiral arms with the currently observed Cepheid variables. Oldest stars (red) are 400 million years old and the youngest (blue) are ...

Astronomers from the University of Warsaw, Poland and elsewhere have detected a new classical Cepheid variable star. The newfound star, which received designation OGLE-GD-CEP-1884, has the longest ...

Today's ESA/Hubble Picture of the Week features a galaxy that Hubble has captured multiple times over more than 20 years. The galaxy is called NGC 3370, and it is a spiral galaxy located nearly 90 ...