As dying stars take their final few breaths of life, they gently sprinkle their ashes into the cosmos through the magnificent planetary nebulae. These ashes,…
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The material ejected by the supernova will initially expand very rapidly, but then gradually slow down, forming an intricate giant bubble of hot glowing gas.…
KyotoU’s new Seimei telescope detects enormous ‘superflare’ on nearby star The cold, dark chaos of space is filled with mystery. Fortunately, the ways in which…
Artist impression of the atmosphere of Antares. As seen with the naked eye (up until the photosphere), Antares is around 700 times larger than our…
Image of star cluster G286.21+0.17, caught in the act of formation. This is a multiwavelength mosaic of more than 750 ALMA radio images, and 9…
This illustration shows what the luminous blue variable star in the Kinman Dwarf galaxy could have looked like before its mysterious disappearance. Credit: ESO/L. Calçada…
Neutron star nebula. Credit: NASA/CXC/SAO: X-ray; NASA/JPL-Caltech: Infrared Most massive stars are born in binaries (and sometimes triples, quadruples, and so on—being single isn’t common…
Credit: NASA/CXC/M. Weiss Astronomers have reported the first detection of X-rays from the earliest phase of evolution of a star like our Sun. This discovery…
Artist’s impression of the formation of supermassive stars which evolve into a supermassive black hole. Credit: NAOJ Computer simulations conducted by astrophysicists at Tohoku University…
A neutron star begins its life as a star between about 7 and 20 times the mass of the sun. When this type of star…
Astronomers using ESO telescopes have discovered giant spots on the surface of extremely hot stars hidden in stellar clusters, called extreme horizontal branch stars. This…
Russian scientists discovered a unique neutron star, the magnetic field of which is apparent only when the star is seen under a certain angle relative…
German-British research team simulates basic conditions for the formation of magnetic stars. How do some neutron stars become the strongest magnets in the Universe? A…
Artist impression of the pulse from a massive neutron star being delayed by the passage of a white dwarf star between the neutron star and…
This image from the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope reveals an ancient, glimmering ball of stars called NGC 1466. It is a globular cluster — a…
In this image of the Epoch of Reionization, neutral hydrogen, in red, is gradually ionized by the first stars, shown in white. The image was…