A new study led by researchers from the Yunnan Observatories of the Chinese Academy of Sciences has developed a neural network-based method for large-scale celestial object classification, according ...

To understand how we classify and differentiate the stars we see in the sky, we first need to understand how they are born and change throughout their lives. Star formation begins with a massive cloud ...

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From 19th-century glass plates to today’s high-resolution spectrographs, astronomers have developed ingenious ways to measure a star’s temperature, brightness, and chemical makeup. These measurements ...