Using the Nanshan One-meter Wide-field Telescope (NOWT), astronomers from China have performed a photometric survey of the old open cluster NGC 188. In result, they identified many variable stars, one ...

The Interacting Stellar Winds (ISW) model 1 describes planetary nebula (PN) formation as the interaction between a slow, dense asymptotic giant branch (AGB) wind (\(\sim\) 10 km/s) and a subsequent ...

Using the 104-cm Sampurnanand optical telescope, Indian astronomers have performed photometric observations of an open cluster named King 6, which resulted in the detection of three new variable stars ...

For anyone who grew up reading science fiction or watching Star Trek, the existence of planets outside our solar system was a given. We took it for granted that there must be millions of these star ...

Red supergiants (RSGs) are cool, evolved massive stars in their final evolutionary stage before exploding as a supernova. However, the evolution and fate of the most luminous RSGs remain uncertain.