A celestial sleight-of-hand is underway. The bright star Epsilon (ε) Aurigae began to dim this summer. Bit by bit, it will darken by almost a full magnitude on the astronomical brightness scale, ...
An artist's image of the Epsilon Aurigae system, with a dusty disk swirling around a companion star. For nearly 200 years, astronomers have puzzled over the strange dimming process of the bright ...
Ever since I was a youngster, I’ve been fascinated by how crime scene investigators can reconstruct a crime with such amazing accuracy from relatively scant evidence. They don’t have the luxury of ...
ST. LOUIS — Already bright enough to be seen with the naked eye, the star epsilon Aurigae may be trembling at the brink of a powerful outburst. The fireworks, which would be easily visible in the ...
Some kind of obstruction is blocking our view of Epsilon Aurigae, a star in the constellation Auriga. Its exact nature is unknown — but astronomers say that if you’ve got a telescope, you could help ...
Ever since I was a youngster, I’ve been fascinated by how crime scene investigators can reconstruct a crime with such amazing accuracy from relatively scant evidence. They don’t have the luxury of ...