Red Giant

Space August 15, 2020

NASA STEREO Spacecraft’s Lone View of Betelgeuse Reveals More Strange Behavior – Is Supernova Imminent?

For several weeks in summer 2020, NASA’s Solar and Terrestrial Relations Observatory, or STEREO, had the solar system’s best view of the star Betelgeuse, whose…

unexpected spiral structure in the material around the old star R Sculptoris

Space October 11, 2012

Cosmic Spiral Around Red Giant Star R Sculptoris Could Elucidate Stellar Evolution

R Sculptoris, an elderly star, located 1,500 light-years from Earth, has been observed in the final stages of stellar life, slowly shedding the outer layers…

Space May 7, 2012

Possible Death of Solar System Seen in White Dwarf Stars

Astronomers using the Hubble Space Telescope have been able to probe into the chemical signatures of dusky disks encircling four distant star systems. They discovered…