Astronomy on MSN

What is the origin of the letters used in star classification?

What is the origin of the letters used in star classification? Why didn't astronomers use ABCD? J. HaldimanChicago, Illinois ...
Science Friday

The Stars Behind Our Stellar Classification System

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 ...
JSTOR Daily

Periodic Variable Star Classification with Deep Learning: Handling Data Imbalance in an Ensemble Augmentation Way

Time-domain astronomy is progressing rapidly with the ongoing and upcoming large-scale photometric sky surveys led by the Vera C. Rubin Observatory project (LSST). Billions of variable sources call ...
Popular Science

This A.I. Program Can Identify Billions Of Stars

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Citizen ASAS-SN Data Release. I. Variable Star Classification Using Citizen Science

We present the first results from Citizen ASAS-SN, a citizen science project for the All-Sky Automated Survey for Supernovae (ASAS-SN) hosted on the Zooniverse platform. Citizen ASAS-SN utilizes the ...
Astronomy

Are brown dwarfs stars, planets or neither?

Recent research on Epsilon Indi B and C, two brown dwarfs, reveals masses exceeding the previously established threshold for hydrogen fusion, challenging existing theoretical models of star and brown ...