One particular find — a bright blue chunk — caught their attention and turned out to be a rare ancient material. Archaeologists sifted through the ruins of the Domus Aurea, also known as the ...

Determined to find out, Leiner and her colleagues attained and analyzed fresh Hubble Space Telescope observations of one of the brightest blue lurker ... the story of an ancient triple star ...

A massive white dwarf (lower left) and a "blue lurker" star (upper right ... where astronomers have unraveled the story of an ancient triple star system in such detail. The findings would ...