Curious Kids is a series for children of all ages. If you have a question you’d like an expert to answer, send it to ...

If you’re looking for a stellar experience this month, June promises to offer some of the most breathtaking celestial events ...

A dim star in the night sky 3,000 light-years from our ... It's a binary star system with a cool, red giant star and a smaller, hotter white dwarf star orbiting each other. Every 80 years, the ...

I love photographing the night sky and astronomical events ... T CrB is a binary star system – it’s made up of a red giant and a white dwarf, which orbit each other every 228 days at about ...

A red giant star and white dwarf orbit each other in this animation ... When it explodes, it will be in the top 50 brightest stars in the night sky, astronomers say. "It's going to be one of ...

A red giant star and white dwarf orbit each other in this animation ... When T CrB does explode, it will look like a very bright star in the night sky in the Corona Borealis constellation.

In a rural sky dense with stars ... hint to their temperatures—with hotter stars appearing blue-white and cooler stars glowing red or orange. These stars are ranked based on their apparent ...