Webb Space Telescope Discovers Strange Cosmic “Fingerprint”
A new Webb image shows at least 17 dust rings created by a rare type of star and its companion locked in a celestial dance….
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Confirming a Decades-Old Prediction: Astronomers Discover a “Cataclysmic” Pair of Stars
The stars have the shortest orbit yet, circling each other every 51 minutes, confirming a decades-old prediction. In our galaxy, nearly half of the stars…
Do Stars Remember Their Past? Study Sheds New Light on Old Theories of Stellar Evolution
A star’s “childhood” shapes their stellar evolution. From newborns to teenagers, stars in their “young years” pose a significant scientific challenge. It is extremely challenging…
Planetary Heist: Astronomers Discover That Stars Can Steal Planets
Researchers at the University of Sheffield have proposed a new origin for Jupiter-like planets orbiting massive stars three times the mass of our Sun. According…
“One of a Kind” Massive Triple Star System Detected
Compact, massive triple star system detected by University of Copenhagen researchers. Earlier this year, researchers revealed the discovery of an extraordinarily compact “one-of-a-kind” system of…
Astronomy & Astrophysics 101: Red Giant
What Is a Red Giant? A red giant forms after a star has run out of hydrogen fuel for nuclear fusion and has begun the…
Astronomers May Have Discovered the Youngest Planet Ever Detected in Our Galaxy
ALMA Makes First-Ever Detection of Gas in a Circumplanetary Disk Astronomers using the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) to study planet formation have made the…
18 Million Miles per Hour: Star With the Shortest Orbital Period Around Black Hole Discovered
A newly discovered star only takes four years to travel around the black hole at the center of our Milky Way. Astronomers have discovered the…
Mysterious Star Survives a Thermonuclear Supernova Explosion
A Tenacious Star Validates a Revised Model of Supernovae A supernova is the cataclysmic explosion of a star. Thermonuclear supernovae, in particular, signal the complete…
Watching the Violent Death of a Rare, Extreme Supergiant Star
By tracing molecular emissions in the outflows around the red hypergiant star VY Canis Majoris, astronomers have obtained the first detailed map of the star’s…
The Chemistry of the Sun: Resolving a Decade-Long Controversy About the Composition of Our Star
New calculations of Solar spectrum resolve decade-long controversy about the composition of our star. Although our sun is far closer than any other star in…
The Sun Is Spinning Round Again: Solving Part of the “Solar Problem”
An international team of astronomers has succeeded in developing a model to solve part of the “solar problem.” All was wrong with the Sun! A…
Astronomers Find “Gold Standard” Star in Milky Way With the Widest Range of Elements
In our sun’s cosmic neighborhood of the Milky Way Galaxy is a relatively bright star, and in it, astronomers have been able to identify the…
Massive Stars Play a Crucial Role in Shaping Their Surroundings: How Do the Simulation Models Stack Up?
Less than one percent of stars in a galaxy are formed with masses exceeding ten solar masses. Despite their rarity, massive stars are believed to…
New Clues to Understanding the Mysterious Origin of Supernovae
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…
Rapid Neutron Capture: Astronomers Discover “Gold Standard” Star in Milky Way
A team of astronomers led by University of Michigan’s Ian Roederer and including Carnegie’s Erika Holmbeck have identified the widest range of elements yet observed…
Supernova Forensics: Eight Years Later, a Mysterious Stellar Explosion Is Still Revealing Secrets
Study including University of Chicago researchers analyzes aftermath of 2014 supernova. An international group of astronomers has uncovered new clues about a mysterious stellar explosion…
Weird New Type of Stars – Covered in Helium Burning Ashes – Discovered by Astronomers
A German team of astronomers from the Universities of Tübingen and Potsdam, led by Prof. Klaus Werner, have discovered a new type of strange stars….
