Stars

Proxima Centauri is the closest known star to the Sun, located approximately 4.25 light-years from Earth. Although this small red dwarf is too faint to see with the naked eye, it produces powerful stellar flares …

Stars don’t all live the same kind of life — or die the same kind of death. The reason for those very different fates lies largely in a star’s mass, which determines how quickly it …

Alphard (Alpha Hydrae) is an orange-colored star that has an apparent visual magnitude of +2.0, making it the brightest star in Hydra, the largest of the 88 recognized constellations. Alphard is at the midway point …

Caph (Beta Cassiopeiae) is a yellow-white Delta Scuti-class variable, F2-type giant star in the constellation Cassiopeia, with an apparent visual magnitude of +2.27. Along with the stars Alpheratz (Alpha Andromedae) and Algenib (Gamma Pegasi), Caph …

Unlike most other prominent naked-eye stars, the star Gamma Cassiopeiae does not have a traditional Latin or Arabic name, which is strange considering that the star is relatively bright with a mean apparent magnitude of …