Using the Magellan Clay Telescope, astronomers have performed a spectroscopic study of blue straggler stars in the globular ...

Blue stars are blue because they're very hot. This sounds wrong, because in the everyday world — for example on weather maps — red means hot and blue means cold. But blue light carries more ...

An incredible new photo taken by a telescope in the Southern Hemisphere shows a cluster of blue stars burning brightly about 1,500 light-years away from Earth. The picture, released last week by ...

But these stars that have been stripped of their hydrogen have been difficult to find because the light they emit is outside ... Drout said to think of the “bluest blue” you can think of ...

The name 'blue lurker' might sound like a villainous character from a superhero movie. But it is a rare class of star that NASA's Hubble Space Telescope explored by looking deeply into the open ...