"It is spectacular that we can now directly image the details on the surface of stars so far away," Behzad ... a red giant about 300 times bigger than our sun that lies roughly 180 light-years ...

The more evolved a galaxy is, the more collectively chaotic the orbits of its many stars are, new research shows, answering a key detail about how galaxies age. Our sun orbits the center of the ...

orbits a star only 11% as massive as our sun, challenging previous theories on planet formation around smaller stars ‘25X the speed of Sound’: Varda’s W-3 capsule faces a fiery descent ...

Our sun is one of a class of stars known as “solar-type” stars; these comprise only about 7% of the Milky Way galaxy. Most stars, however, are considerably smaller than the sun. These are ...

Astronomers estimate that Betelgeuse is 300 times larger than Eta Carinae ... super small is to compare our sun to one of the largest stars ever observed: VY Canis Majoris. This star's diameter ...