Auriga also contains three star clusters, or collections of hundreds or thousands of stars, known as M36, M37 and M38. They are visible with binoculars as fuzzy patches in the constellation.

Nova in Auriga Discovered by T. D. AndersonOn the 1st of February last it was announced that an amateur star-gazer of Edinburgh, with nothing but a pocket telescope and a star chart, had made an ...

The star in question is Capella, in the constellation of Auriga, the Charioteer. Auriga is one of those star patterns whose exact origin is a hopeless mix of antique conceptions.

(Phys.org)—Astronomers have presented the results of new photometric and spectroscopic observations of the star V501 Aurigae (V501 Aur for short), providing new insights into the nature of this ...

One of the strangest constellations in the winter heavens is Auriga, the chariot driver with goats on his shoulder. It must have been quite a party when folks looked into the heavens and came up wi… ...

A lot of stars are known to periodically dim and brighten because they are regularly being eclipsed by a dimmer star in a tight orbit around it. The star Algol is a famous example and is easily ...

Luckily, a group of astronomers who had developed a magnetic field model of this kind for another class of star also worked in the Taurus-Auriga observing team.

This picture shows a small extract of one of the X-ray images shot by the EPIC cameras on board ESA's XMM-Newton for the Taurus-Auriga survey project. The bright star on the left is one of many ...

This young grouping of stars is about 300 million years old and stretches roughly 24′ across. It is the richest of Auriga’s Messier clusters, with some 500 stars in total.

The five stars between (but excluding) Dubhe in the Big Dipper’s bowl and the tip of its handle mark the core of the Ursa Major Moving Group.

No one likes it when a light bulb dims and then brightens on its own. When a star acts like it has a dimmer switch, astronomers -- professional and amateur alike -- are fascinated. There are a variety ...