Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. An award-winning reporter writing about stargazing and the night sky. Seine et Marne. Focus on one of the most beautiful stars of ...

Astronomers have discovered new hints of a giant, scorching-hot planet orbiting Vega, one of the brightest stars in the night sky. The research, published this month in The Astronomical Journal, was ...

Wandering mysteriously among the uncertainty of night life, The Vega Star draws in waves from music light years gone by, meshing the sounds together to something so familiar and yet goes beyond the ...

Vega provided the first telescopic evidence of a disk of planet-forming material, but there are no planets to be found around this star. Reading time 3 minutes In 1984, astronomers spotted a rotating ...

One of the most well-studied stars, Vega, may have been hiding something from us for years — if confirmed, one of the hottest exoplanet candidates ever discovered. The star, made famous in the 1997 ...

Astronomers have long-wondered if Vega, a star only 25 light-years from Earth, could host exoplanets. Credit: NASA / ESA / CSA / STScI / S. Wolff / K. Su / A. Gáspár composite A little over a decade ...

Over my nearly 50-year astronomy career, I’ve read more than a few books on the subject. If you asked me to name my favorite, you might be surprised to learn it isn’t even an astronomy book but rather ...

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