A Triple Star System Yields an Unusual Surviving Star Unlike our Sun, which exists alone, at least half of the stars in our ...

Our sun is a lonely star. At least half the stars in our galaxy have binary companions. This was nicely illustrated in the ...

A rare breed of star recently discovered by the Hubble Space Telescope spins faster by feeding on its stellar siblings.

Discover the fascinating story of the 'blue lurker,' a mysterious star in the M67 star cluster studied by NASA's Hubble ...

Hubble uncovers the blue lurker star, offering rare insights into triple-star system evolution and stellar mergers ...

In some systems, stars interact in fascinating ways. One of these stories involves a star called the “blue lurker,” recently ...

Determined to find out, Leiner and her colleagues attained and analyzed fresh Hubble Space Telescope observations of one of the brightest blue lurker stars in M67 — the results suggest it was ...

NASA has identified a rare and unusual "blue lurker" star that was produced during the collapse of a triple-star system in ...

Rayet 140, has been closely studied, revealing the formation and outward expansion of carbon-rich dust shells. Data from the ...

The name "blue lurker" might sound like a villainous character from a superhero movie. But it is a rare class of star that NASA's Hubble Space Telescope explored by looking deeply into the open star ...