The following is an excerpt from The Glass Universe: How the Ladies of the Harvard Observatory Took the Measure of the Stars, by Dava Sobel. The monumental work of stellar classification known as the ...

MANY of the recent advances in our knowledge of the constitution of the stars are traceable to Prof. Pickering's revival of Fraunhofer's mode of investigating stellar spectra. The endowment of this ...

This article examines the spectroscopic properties of young stellar objects, linking accretion dynamics to observed brightness variations and stellar growth.

THE author has brought together in a small compass a list of the more prominent objects in the heavens for the use of possessors of small telescopes. The list is accompanied also by brief historical ...

Exoplanet host star activity, in the form of unocculted star spots or faculae, alters the observed transmission and emission spectra of the exoplanet. This effect can be exacerbated when combining ...

Photo taken on June 19, 2015 shows the Large Sky Area Multi-Object Fibre Spectroscopy Telescope (LAMOST) at the Xinglong observation station of the National Astronomical Observatories under the ...

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