Science news articles about 'stellar neighbors'

... April 25, one of our nearest stellar neighbors, a small, faint red dwarf known as EV Lacertae, unleashed the brightest flare ... coming from the edge of the universe. "The sheer magnitude of this stellar flare is unprecedented, and it was produced in our own celestial ...

... meant to understand the nature of the sun's nearest stellar neighbors, both individually and as a population. The current primary goals are to discover and characterize "missing" members ...

... in color. Viewed from a potential future planet, the stellar neighbor would appear as an intense point in the night sky, about one thousand times brighter than the brightest ...

... -years away. Among hundreds of our nearest stellar neighbors, 61 Vir stands out as being the most nearly ... evident that planets orbiting the Sun's nearest neighbors are extremely common. According to Butler, current indications ...

Binary star systems, such as our closest stellar neighbor, Alpha Centauri, could host Earth-sized planets, a new study found.

Three stars in this system are the sun's nearest stellar neighbors.