A Triple Star System Yields an Unusual Surviving Star Unlike our Sun, which exists alone, at least half of the stars in our ...

Discover the fascinating story of the 'blue lurker,' a mysterious star in the M67 star cluster studied by NASA's Hubble ...

In some systems, stars interact in fascinating ways. One of these stories involves a star called the “blue lurker,” recently ...

Our sun is a lonely star. At least half the stars in our galaxy have binary companions. This was nicely illustrated in the ...

A rare breed of star recently discovered by the Hubble Space Telescope spins faster by feeding on its stellar siblings.

Hubble uncovers the blue lurker star, offering rare insights into triple-star system evolution and stellar mergers ...

A chunk of that knowledge came to light when Hubble observations of the blue lurker revealed it was not a standalone star, but rather was locked in a gravitational dance with the smoldering remains of ...

The lurker is a member of the open cluster M67, also known as the "King Cobra Cluster." This 4 billion-year-old group of 500 stars, located 2,800 light-years away, is loosely bound by gravity.

A chunk of that knowledge came to light when Hubble observations of the blue lurker revealed it was not a standalone star, but rather was locked in a gravitational dance with the smoldering ...