The oldest stars in the Milky Way are forcing a fresh look at one of cosmology’s biggest arguments. If some of them are about 13.
Researchers at Nagoya University in Japan have conducted the most detailed simulation of the interior of stars and disproved ...
The Vera C. Rubin Observatory has started releasing its first discoveries: including supernovae, variable stars and asteroids ...
Astronomers are now creating 'artificial stars' using powerful lasers to overcome Earth's atmospheric distortions that blur telescope images. These laser-generated stars act as reference points, ...
"We are really pushing the edges, and are seeing things that are more massive, spinning faster, and are more astrophysically ...
The world's first commercial space telescope has released its first image as it begins its journey to help track nearby stars ...
WOH G64 has always been an oddball. It sits in the Large Magellanic Cloud, a small galaxy that orbits the Milky Way, and it ranks among the most extreme red supergiants known.
When most people think of a supernova, they're thinking of a Type II core-collapse supernova. These are massive stars that have reached the end of their time on the main sequence. They've used up ...
A sweeping new ALMA image has peeled back the veil on the Milky Way’s core, exposing a dense network of cold gas filaments ...
A steady stream of particles forms a huge bubble around the Sun. Now, such a structure has been found around a Sun-like star ...
UT astronomer Keith Hawkins will discuss how astronomers map the stars in our galaxy to understand its formation and evolution across cosmic time.
The jellyfish galaxy in question. The dashed circles mark the four extra-planar sources that are identified in the galaxy’s tail. Credit: The Astrophysical Journal. Astronomers ...