Today, the Hubble Space Telescope has unveiled a new class of exotic stars: blue lurkers. These enigmatic objects, observed in the open cluster M67, challenge our knowledge of stellar evolution ...

Hubble discovered that the surviving star has an unusually fast spin rate that can only be explained if it was feeding off of the gas expelled by the stellar merger. The name "blue lurker" might ...

The Hubble Space Telescope has discovered a rare "blue lurker" star that has been feeding on material from its two conjoined siblings. The fast-spinning star provides a detailed look at the ...

Evolution of a "Blue Lurker" Star in a Triple System Panel 1: A triple star system containing three Sun-like stars. Two are very tightly orbiting. The third star has a much wider orbit.

The sparkling spiral galaxy gracing this NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope image is UGC 5460, which sits about 60 million light ...

NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope has identified a rare stellar phenomenon called the “blue lurker” in the M67 star cluster. Located 2,800 light-years away, this star is part of a triple-star ...

The researchers used Hubble and Keck to take a closer look at the galaxy and trace the culprit behind the rings. The smaller galaxy is known as a blue dwarf and can be seen to the center left of ...

NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope has identified a rare stellar phenomenon called the “blue lurker” in the M67 star cluster. Located 2,800 light-years away, this star is part of a triple-star ...

NASA's Hubble Space Telescope has captured a cosmic bullseye. The gargantuan galaxy LEDA 1313424 is rippling with nine star-filled rings after an "arrow"—a far smaller blue dwarf galaxy—shot ...

The name "blue lurker" might sound like a villainous character from a superhero movie. But it is a rare class of star that NASA's Hubble Space Telescope explored by looking deeply into the open ...