HONOLULU (HawaiiNewsNow) - After 20 years of research, an international team of researchers led by a UH Hilo professor made a surprising discovery. Pierre Martin and has team have been studying a ...
ABOVE: This composite photo by NASA, ESA, the Hubble Heritage Team and R. Gendler shows the Andromeda Galaxy. The Cepheid variable star V1 is indicated with an arrow, and four inset images show the ...
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 ...
New research offers the most precise measurements yet of pulsating Cepheid stars, which may hold clues about the immense size and scale of our universe. Cepheids are a type of variable star that ...
Ninety years ago, Harvard astronomer Henrietta Leavitt spent years painstakingly examining thousands of sky photographs to search for and study variable stars. Her laborious hunt led to the discovery ...
Using ESO’s Very Large Telescope Interferometer (VLTI) at Cerro Paranal, Chile, and the CHARA Interferometer at Mount Wilson, California, a team of French and North American astronomers has discovered ...
At the center of these side-by-side images is a special class of star used as a milepost marker for measuring the universe’s rate of expansion – a Cepheid variable star. The two images are very ...
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