Discover the Hertzsprung-Russell diagram, a key tool graphing the brightness of stars against color in astronomy. That's really funny, and I wish I had thought of it. The vertical axis is fame, as ...

Imagine you are being given an important assignment by a taskmaster with a strange sense of humor. Your job is to study a forest, but you can only work according to a rather bizarre set of rules. For ...

A simple diagram, which celebrates its centennial this year, continues to serve as the most essential conceptual tool in stellar astrophysics Modern astronomy paints a vivid picture of the universe ...

A sweeping new study has pulled back the curtain on the chaotic early lives of young stars, revealing that stellar infancy is far more turbulent and variable than previously thought. Over ten ...

A single star is a wonder. A million stars is a story. A star can burn for billions, even trillions of years. With human history spanning mere centuries, how can we possibly understand the lifespan of ...