The two stars in Wolf-Rayet 140 produce shells of dust every eight years that look like rings, as seen in this image from NASA’s James…
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An artist’s illustration shows a white dwarf (right) circling a larger, sun-like star (left) in an ultra-short orbit, forming a “cataclysmic” binary system. Credit: M.Weiss/Center…
Artist’s impression of a BEASTie. The image shows a gas giant planet (like Jupiter) on a distant orbit around a blue, massive star. The planet…
A bright star is surrounded by a tenuous shell of gas in this unusual image from the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope. U Camelopardalis, or U…
[unable to retrieve full-text content] A Tenacious Star Validates a Revised Model of Supernovae A supernova is the cataclysmic explosion of a star. Thermonuclear supernovae,…
Artist’s impression of the red hypergiant star VY Canis Majoris. Located about 3,009 light-years from Earth, VY Canis Majoris is possibly the most massive star…
Astronomers have finally resolved the conflict between the internal structure of the Sun as determined from solar oscillations and the structure derived from the fundamental…
The model developed by the scientists includes the history of the rotation of the sun but also the magnetic instabilities that it generates. Credit: Sylvia…
The star HD 222925 is a ninth-magnitude star located toward the southern constellation Tucana. Credit: The STScI Digitized Sky Survey In our sun’s cosmic neighborhood…
Figure 1: The 30 Doradus nebula, also known as the Tarantula Nebula, in the Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC) is home to many massive stars. Credit:…
Scientists from the RIKEN Cluster for Pioneering Research have used computer modeling to show how a hypothesized type of supernova would evolve on the scale…
The supernova known as 2014C took place eight years ago—but scientists are still watching and learning from its aftermath. The very faintly visible explosion is…
Artist’s impression of a rare kind of stellar merger event between two white dwarf stars. Credit: Nicole Reindl A German team of astronomers from the…
Animation showing the formation of a supernova remnant. High-power laser and foam ball show how blast waves from supernova remnant might trigger star formation in…
This artist’s conception of the Mira star system depicts Mira A (right), a highly evolved red giant star, and Mira B (left), a white dwarf.…
The Sunrise Arc Galaxy With Lensed Star Earendel Credit: Science: NASA, ESA, Brian Welch (JHU), Dan Coe (STScI), Image Processing: NASA, ESA, Alyssa Pagan (STScI)…
The Sunrise Arc Galaxy With Lensed Star Earendel Credit: Science: NASA, ESA, Brian Welch (JHU), Dan Coe (STScI), Image Processing: NASA, ESA, Alyssa Pagan (STScI)…
Scientists have observed, for the first time, the mysterious death throes of a carbon-rich asymptotic branch star (AGB). V Hydrae’s final act is characterized by…
Artist’s concept of a pulsar. Pulsars, a class of neutron stars, are extremely predictable stars. They are formed from the hearts of massive stars that…
Artist concept of TESS observing an M dwarf star with orbiting planets. : NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center A team of astronomers have made the…