Starspots in general can last from days to months, and can migrate across the surface of their star. Tracking the behaviour ...

XX Trianguli has massive starspots, over sun's entire surface area Starspots behave chaotically, unlike the Sun's predictable ...

In 5 billion years, our Sun–a regular yellow dwarf star–will turn into a red giant and then into an expanding and glowing ring-shaped shell of gas. In the process, it will swallow up Mercury ...

Astronomers discover unpredictable internal behavior in red giant star XX Trianguli, revealing chaotic processes within its ...

However, XX Tri is a red giant star about ten times larger than the sun and its internal structure differs significantly from the sun's, which is a main sequence dwarf. We found no evidence of ...

In about six billion years, the Sun, a medium-size yellow star, will have puffed up to about two hundred times its current size. In this phase, our parent star will be known as a Red Giant.

A giant star 150 times bigger than the Sun has been pictured 'hiccuping' by scientists. Despite being predicted in theory, the rare cosmic event had never been seen before. It only occurs in ...

Astronomers have been left baffled after spotting a giant star 'hiccuping'. The rare cosmic event only occurs with exceptionally large stars between 60 to 150 times the mass of the sun.