Astronomers have discovered new hints of a giant, scorching-hot planet orbiting Vega, one of the brightest stars in the night sky. The research, published this month in The Astronomical Journal, was ...

Over my nearly 50-year astronomy career, I’ve read more than a few books on the subject. If you asked me to name my favorite, you might be surprised to learn it isn’t even an astronomy book but rather ...

The nearby bright star Vega is surrounded by a surprisingly smooth, 100 billion-mile-wide disk of cosmic dust, confirming that it is not surrounded by any exoplanets, JWST images reveal. And ...

Vega provided the first telescopic evidence of a disk of planet-forming material, but there are no planets to be found around this star. Reading time 3 minutes In 1984, astronomers spotted a rotating ...

Astronomers have long-wondered if Vega, a star only 25 light-years from Earth, could host exoplanets. Credit: NASA / ESA / CSA / STScI / S. Wolff / K. Su / A. Gáspár composite A little over a decade ...

Every star we see in the night sky is like our sun. Sure, some are larger or smaller, and some are hotter or cooler, but all work the same way. Each is a thermonuclear fusion reactor that converts ...

An astronomer and a photographer captured the first photograph of star 175 years ago on July 17, 1850. This image of Vega in the sky over Harvard is the first known photograph of a star other than our ...

Strong darkening observed around the equator of Vega suggests that the fifth brightest star in Earth’s sky has a huge temperature difference of 4,000 degrees Fahrenheit from its cool equatorial region ...

From Aldebaran to Vega, these gleaming beacons dazzle Northern Hemisphere viewers at various times of the year and provide a useful entry point into amateur astronomy Carlyn Kranking - Associate Web ...

Astronomers have long-wondered if Vega, a star only 25 light-years from Earth, could host exoplanets. A little over a decade ago, astronomers found a large gap between two belts circling Vega, hinting ...