Tag: stars

A secret star orbiting Betelgeuse could solve the mystery of its pulsating brightness.

Stars near the Milky Way's core may employ an exotic reaction involving dark matter to extended their lifetimes virtually indefinitely.

Some stars in the chaotic heart of the Milky Way consume one another and it makes them look young again.

Oh, you thought the Sun was big? That's cute.

Here's some of the largest, plumpest stars out there.

These isolated collections of blue stars are puzzling astronomers.

Whether that's good news or not is anyone's guess, though.

By directly measuring the mass of a protoplanetary disc, astronomers have begun to unravel the mystery of planet formation.

Astronomers are no longer in the dark about the dimming of Betegeuse.

A newly conducted in-depth cosmic census has revealed that star-forming molecular clouds come in an array of shapes and sizes.

The vast majority of stars are made almost entirely of hydrogen (about 90%) and helium (about 10%), with trace amounts ...

Astronomers have captured stellar winds emitted by aging stars in unprecedented detail.

This spectacular three-star system is radically different than our solar system.

“Silently, one by one, in the infinite meadows of heaven, blossomed the lovely stars, the forget-me-nots of the angels.” ― ...

Astronomers have identified a runaway star travelling at an incredible 6 million kilometres per hour, ejected by the supermassive black ...

New research has provided some surprising answers regarding the origins of globular clusters the oldest visible objects in the Universe — some ...

The galaxy's elderly unexpectedly move faster than stellar younglings.

The planet is so close to its host star that it only has a 5.36 day-long orbit. At this distance, ...

The findings could topple our current understanding of how galaxies merge.

Stopping just shy of a black hole's density, neutron stars play a dangerous game.

You'll never know what's written in the stars for you if you can't read them.

A really lucky find.

It's small but it will rip you apart using only magnetism.

What we do know is that it blasts enormously powerful X-rays into the void.

Awww, it has your....mass.

Astrophysicists have discovered a new class of exoplanets whose atmospheres and volatile elements have been blown away by the star ...

Research based on recent observations of a nearby gamma-ray burst, GRB 130603B, help explain how gold, silver and other heavy ...

There are two types of galaxies: 'alive' and 'dead' ones. Those galaxies that are still alive are called so because ...

Musica Universalis or Music of the Spheres is an philosophical concept which portrays the proportions in the movement of the ...

Astronomers have come across something truly amazing. Observations have surprised a protostar - a star in the making - in ...

The short answer is, no. Not with the naked eye at least, but if you use a highly potent set ...

A new research has found that the massively powerful O-type stars, which can be up to 90 times more powerful ...

A new study published by researchers at University of Hong Kong has produced controversial waves among the astronomy community, as ...

Yes, you've read that right. There are over 50 billion planets in our galaxy alone, according to the Kepler telescope, ...

The nebula you are looking at is known as the North American nebula, and the pictures were taken with the ...

A supernova is a stellar explosion of cosmic proportions, that often can outshine the entire galaxy it is located in, ...

A new study suggests that a blunder of cosmic proportions has been made when estimating the total number of stars ...

The above photo was captured by the Hubble Space Telescope around mid last year, proving excellent practice for Hubble's newly ...

The Coma Galaxy, a galaxy directly involved in the so called dark flow Two years ago, researchers reported the strange ...

It was Thursday night when locals from Norway started to notice a strange, rotating light that just baffled them. It ...

You may or may not have heard about blue stragglers; they are blue stars that are hotter and bluer than ...

Recently, NASA's Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope discovered no more, no less than 12 pulsars, and it also detected gamma ray ...

Actually, it's not about the brightest star of all, but the brightest star in our galaxy. It seems there's a ...

We have another piece of evidence which goes to show that we fail to understand numerous things about our universe. ...