This otherwise sun-like young star spins in a way that astronomers have never seen before and could challenge our model of stellar rotation, which scientists had thought was well understood.

A new study published in Nature Astronomy, led by Dr. Jie Yu, from the Australian National University, reveals that stars in ...

Betelgeuse is one of the most well-known stars in the night sky. Located about 640 light years from Earth in the ...

We did not expect to see such anomalies in stellar rotation. The anomalies in the rotational profile of V889 Herculis indicate that our understanding of stellar dynamics and magnetic dynamos are ...

Similar rotational profile has not been observed for any other star. The result is stunning because stellar rotation has been considered a well-understood fundamental physical parameter but such a ...

This happens because the star gives off charged particles, called stellar winds, which interact with the magnetic field. As these two interact, they cause the star to gradually slow rotation in an ...