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How Does Light From Distant Stars Remain Coherent?
Since the light from a distant star is a point source for any measurement that we want to make,…

How to Compute the Distance Between Two Stars
This is actually an application of spherical trigonometry. A good description of this calculation, including an online tool to…

Precession of DI Herculis
I believe that in the article that you are referring to the authors are suggesting that the rotation axis…

Difference Between Star System and Star Cluster
In general, I believe that the term “star cluster” refers to gravitationally-bound associations of thousands of stars, while the…

Is There a Reference for Average Distance Between Stars in the Milky Way?
I don’t believe that there is a standard reference for the average distance between stars in the Milky Way…