Is Betelgeuse About to Explode? Dimming Red Supergiant Isn’t That Cool
Star’s dimming not a sign of imminent explosion: study shows Betelgeuse likely isn’t cold, just dusty. Late last year, news broke that the star Betelgeuse…
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Astrophysicists Discover a Neutron Star With a Bizarre Magnetic Field
Scientists from Moscow Institute for Physics and Technology, Space Research Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences (IKI), and Pulkovo Observatory discovered a unique neutron…
New Research Finally Provides Insights on How the Strongest Magnets in the Universe Form [Video]
German-British research team simulates basic conditions for the formation of magnetic stars. How do some neutron stars become the strongest magnets in the Universe? A…
Astronomers Detect Massive Neutron Star That Is Almost Too Massive to Exist [Video]
Astronomers using the GBT have discovered the most massive neutron star to date, a rapidly spinning pulsar approximately 4,600 light-years from Earth. This record-breaking object…
Hubble Explores the Formation and Evolution of Star Clusters in the Large Magellanic Cloud
Just as people of the same age can vary greatly in appearance and shape, so do collections of stars or stellar aggregates. New observations from…
And Then There Was Light: Hunting the First Stars in the Universe [Video]
Researchers hunt for a 12-billion-year-old signal that marks the end of the post Big Bang “dark age.” Astronomers are closing in on a signal that…
New Breed of Supernova Results In Total Annihilation for Supermassive Stars
A renegade star exploding in a distant galaxy has forced astronomers to set aside decades of research and focus on a new breed of supernova…
Astronomers Provide New Evidence That All Stars Are Born in Pairs
Using a radio survey of a giant molecular cloud filled with recently formed stars and a mathematical model that can explain the observations, astronomers reveal…
ALMA Views a Newborn Star Enshrouded in Dust
This newly released ALMA image shows a newborn star enshrouded in dust. This intriguing image may look like a collection of colored blobs, but it…
Astronomers Gain a Better Understanding of Spica
A newly published study details Spica, an eccentric double-lined spectroscopic binary system with a β Cep type variable primary component. The familiar star Spica (Alpha…
Ancient Milky Way Stars Contain Clues About The Early Universe
An international team of astronomers has discovered some of the oldest stars in the Milky Way. These stars could contain vital clues about the early…
Astronomers Reveal How Stars Reach Masses of More Than a Hundred Times Our Sun
A team of astronomers has discovered a stable structure around one of the most massive, newly forming stars in our galaxy, revealing how some stars…
Synchrotron Emission Will Allow Astronomers to Find Stars That No One Has Seen Before
Astronomers believe that radio waves coming from supersonic stars will help them find stars that no one has seen before. The center of our Milky…
Two Massive Stars with Magnetic Fields Discovered in Binary System Epsilon Lupi
In a newly published study, astronomers reveal that the two giant stars in binary system Epsilon Lupi have magnetic fields. A Canadian PhD student has…
Astronomers Reach an Important Milestone in the Study of Cluster Mergers
Astronomers reach an important milestone in the study of cluster mergers, showing that member galaxies are still gas rich and thus can form stars and…
White Dwarf PG1149+057 Displays ‘Irregular Heartbeats’
Using Kepler data, a team of astronomers has observed a white dwarf star displaying massive arrhythmic outbursts, which broke the star’s regular pulse and significantly…
Hubble Reveals the Secrets of the Quintuplet Cluster
This newly released Hubble image shows the Quintuplet Cluster, which is located 100 light-years from the center of our galaxy. Although this cluster of stars…
Astronomers Solve Mystery of Unusually Hot Blue Stars
New research by an international team of astronomers solves the mystery of hot blue stars, which despite their smaller size are especially luminous. Astronomers have…