An Ad-Mira-ble Distance Measurement
What if we used stars other than Cepheids to measure distances?
Leavitt’s Standard Candles
Happy International Women’s Day. This astrobite investigates how astronomer Henrietta Swan Leavitt’s work changed our understanding of the size of the universe!
The future is bright: a new technique finds variability in K2 data of the Seven Sisters
Today’s authors use a new technique to make new discoveries about the Seven Sisters.
Additional Arguments that Aboriginal Australians Observed Variable Stars
Did Aboriginal Australians notice that Betelgeuse is a variable star? Today’s paper provides additional evidence that they did.
Solving Cepheid Mysteries with the Magellanic Clouds
What can the variable stars in the Magellanic Clouds tell us about how they evolve?
Getting WISE-r about Variable Stars
What sorts of variable objects can be found in a trove of infrared data?