TOLEDO, Ohio (WTVG) - As Americans celebrate everything spooky today, NASA is keeping a close eye on a star that may soon rise from the dead! Back in 1946, astronomers watched as a new star suddenly ...
The iOptron SkyTracker Pro is a versatile unit that is acclimatized to taking wide-angle images of the night sky. The compactness of its design makes this model of star tracker a versatile option to ...
Star trackers and associated sensor systems are fundamental instruments for attitude determination in both spacecraft and aerial vehicles. By utilising celestial objects as reference points, these ...
Astronomers have discovered a rare hypervelocity L subdwarf star racing through the Milky Way. More remarkably, this star may be on a trajectory that causes it to leave the Milky Way altogether. It ...
Astronomers have discovered that the Seven Sisters of the Pleiades star cluster have more stellar siblings than we thought — a lot more. Using NASA's exoplanet hunting spacecraft TESS (Transiting ...
The shimmering Pleiades star cluster has just shed its millennia-old reputation as a collection of Seven Sisters. Thanks to new data gleaned from the TESS and Gaia star-tracking spacecrafts, ...