ASAS-SN searches for supernova and finds variable stars too! They found so many (~90,000) that they decided to classify them all. How do you go about classifying 90,000 things? Machine learning, of course!
What if we used stars other than Cepheids to measure distances?
Happy International Women’s Day. This astrobite investigates how astronomer Henrietta Swan Leavitt’s work changed our understanding of the size of the universe!
Today’s authors use a new technique to make new discoveries about the Seven Sisters.
Did Aboriginal Australians notice that Betelgeuse is a variable star? Today’s paper provides additional evidence that they did.
What can the variable stars in the Magellanic Clouds tell us about how they evolve?