Martha Foley and Dr. Curt Stager talk about stars and the very clever ways we can tell their distance from the earth. Aug 16, 2018 — Martha Foley and Dr. Curt Stager talk about stars and the very ...

Scientists have developed a novel method to calculate the distances to stars, and it could be useful in helping map the size of galaxies. The study is published in the Monthly Notices of the Royal ...

Whether reading science news or watching science fiction, one hears references to distances between objects and places in space. Distances between stars is one thing, but the great gulfs between the ...

In the nearly 20 years that I’ve enjoyed sharing my love of astronomy with you, I’ve rattled off many, many distances to many stars and galaxies. If we tried to express the distances in miles the ...

Astronomers from the University of Cambridge have developed a new, highly accurate method of measuring the distances between stars, which could be used to measure the size of the galaxy, enabling ...

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Recently the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS) has completed the largest map of the universe thus far. The map focuses on the positions of quasars. These objects are powered by supermassive black holes ...

A new method of measuring the distances between stars enables astronomers to climb the 'cosmic ladder' and understand the processes at work in the outer reaches of the galaxy. Astronomers from the ...