Check out the chart above and make sure to revisit Auriga ... Also cataloged as Alpha (α) Ursae Minoris or Polaris, this 2nd-magnitude star is far from the brightest, but gets its notoriety ...

was related to the star's magnitude, not distance. Yet magnitude itself allowed you to calculate distance. Leavitt published her findings in 1912 -- in a chart of 25 cepheid periods and their ...

The Risen Star Stakes has experienced its share of surprising finishes in its half-century history, but few have been more ...