This is the compass image for VY Canis Majoris, showing the orientation and filters used. Credit: NASA, ESA, and R. Humphreys (University of Minnesota), and…
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The red supergiant appears as a red starburst between two orange clouds. Credit: © 2021 Andrew Klinger Red supergiants are a class of star that…
Gaia survey provides location and motion of 1.3 million binary pairs within 3,000 light years of Earth. The latest star data from the Gaia space…
This ALMA image shows the young planetforming dust rings surrounding the IRS 63 protostar, which is younger than 500,000 years old. Credit: MPE/D. Segura-Cox Data…
Remnants of planetary crust disintegrating under the tidal forces around a cool white dwarf. Material in the disc becomes vapourised close to the central star…
This illustration sketches out the main features of TOI 451, a triple-planet system located 400 light-years away in the constellation Eridanus. Credit: NASA’s Goddard Space…
This graphic illustrates how the southern region of the rapidly evolving, bright, red supergiant star Betelgeuse may have suddenly become fainter for several months during…
This artist’s impression of ID2299 shows the galaxy, the product of a galactic collision, and some of its gas being ejected by a “tidal tail”…
An artistic rendering of generic stellar streams in the Milky Way. Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/R. Hurt, SSC & Caltech Examination of Theia 456 finds its nearly 500…
Gamma-ray bursts, as shown in this illustration, are the most powerful explosions in the universe. They emit most of their energy in gamma rays, light…
The XMM-Newton X-ray telescope reveals a new type of star in X-ray light. Credit: ESA/XMM-Newton, L. Oskinova/University Potsdam, Germany This image shows a new type…
Artist’s conception of a brown dwarf. Credits: NASA/ESA/JPL Planetary scientists wondered if bands of winds or swirling storms dominated the atmospheres of brown dwarfs. University…
Artist’s depiction of a magnetar. Credit: ESO/L. Calçada Astronomers have recently found the fastest spinning and possibly the youngest magnetar known. This object, known as…
591 high velocity stars’ positions and orbits. Credit: Kong Xiao of NAOC A research team, led by astronomers from National Astronomical Observatories of Chinese Academy…
Star formation. Credit: University of Zurich How stars form in galaxies remains a major open question. Robert Feldmann sheds new light on this topic with…
Researchers may have found the long-sought “nanoflares” thought to heat the solar corona to its incredible temperatures. A new study published in Nature Astronomy marks…
Artist’s composition of the two brown dwarfs, in the foreground Oph 98B in purple, in the background Oph 98A in red. Oph 98A is the…
Images of the sun captured by the IRIS mission show new details of how low-lying loops of plasma are energized and may also reveal how…
Artist’s impression of flare from our neighbouring star Proxima Centauri ejecting material onto a nearby planet. Credit: Mark Myers/OzGrav Stellar Flares With a Chance of…
Using NASA’s SOFIA telescope, researchers from the University of Kansas have found CQ 4479, a galaxy which never had been closely studied before, to be…