A new study led by researchers from the Yunnan Observatories of the Chinese Academy of Sciences has developed a neural network-based method for large-scale celestial object classification, according ...

Stellar spectral types originally followed alphabetical order. But as astronomers observed more stars and obtained more detailed spectra, they consolidated some categories and reordered the remaining ...

To understand how we classify and differentiate the stars we see in the sky, we first need to understand how they are born and change throughout their lives. Star formation begins with a massive cloud ...