Stars have magnetic fields that initially get stronger as the speed of the star’s rotation increases. There are still aspects ...

I’m walking in the Gifford Pinchot National Forest on a cross-country ski trail that in mid-May is surrounded by a hundred different shades of green as the understory comes alive ...

Light is electromagnetic radiation: basically, an electric wave and a magnetic wave coupled together and traveling through space-time. It has no mass. That point is critical because the mass of an ...

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In 1979, the group Foreigner recorded the song “Head Games.” They could have been singing about the constellations Hercules ...

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and Alpha Centauri B (on the right). ESA/NASA Our nearest stellar neighbor, Alpha Centauri, is moving towards us at a slow and steady pace. In about 3,000 years, the triple star system will be at ...

It is comprised of three stars — Alpha Centauri A and B, and Proxima Centauri. Proxima Centauri is closer to the Sun, at only about 4.24 light years away, and has a looser gravitational ...

Consisting of Alpha Centauri A and B as a binary pair, and Proxima Centauri, this system intrigues scientists with the possibility of finding habitable exoplanets and the potential for ...

Proxima Centauri and Alpha Centauri A and B are so close to us that although they are gravitationally bound to each other, they lie over 2° apart on the sky — equivalent to four times the width ...

Alpha Centauri B, an orange type K star, glows at magnitude 1.3 and orbits A once every 79.9 years. Their apparent separation varies from just 2″ to 22″ throughout each orbit. The stars are ...