Achieving practical interstellar travel requires overcoming the immense challenge of reaching extraordinary velocities. To ...

Traveling from one star to another is currently impossible to achieve within a human lifetime. But some projects are designing ways to propel payloads to the nearest star system (Alpha Centauri) using ...

Powered by laser light, this tiny sail lays the groundwork for future advances in lightsail technology and the potential for ...

Have you ever looked at the beach and wondered how many grains of sand there are? That can be mind-boggling to think about.

Sid Meier’s Alpha Centauri fits the 4X games formula of ... Torment is a lonely, personal journey to uncover the lost memories of a person who has lived and died untold lives with no ...

There’s a terminator in our midst. Squinting through a telescope, I see it. The fuzzy line (in non-astro speak) where the ...

You can create a release to package software, along with release notes and links to binary files, for other people to use. Learn more about releases in our docs.

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Astronomers measure a star’s brightness using the apparent magnitude system, where lower values indicate brighter stars.

Sirius, Canopus, Alpha Centauri, Arcturus, Vega, Capella, and Rigel are the seven brightest visible stars. Their varying magnitudes and distances from Earth offer insights into astronomical ...