It's always a good sign when astronomers are blunt about how observations have puzzled them. One such confusing object, discovered by a project called the VISTA Variables in the Via Lactea survey, or ...
Astronomers have discovered what they call a giant "blinking" star towards the center of the Milky Way galaxy. The star is called VVV-WIT-08, and it's 25,000 light-years away from Earth. The ...