Stellar Concert: Astronomers Tune In to the Sounds of Twinkling Stars
New study is the first to determine how much stars should innately twinkle. Many people know that stars appear to twinkle because our atmosphere bends…
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Stellar Evolution Rewritten – New Findings Upend Our Understanding of High-Mass Star Formation
Astronomers have mapped 39 interstellar clouds where high-mass stars are expected to form. This extensive data indicates that our current understanding of low-mass star creation…
Astronomers Propose New Method of Measuring Galaxy Distances
The Universe is vast, encompassing hundreds of billions of galaxies. For those galaxies close to us, we primarily determine their distances using classical Cepheids and…
Stellar Spectacle: ESO Captures “Smiling Cat” Nebula
The Sh2-284 nebula, awash in vibrant hues of orange and red, is beautifully captured in intricate detail thanks to the VLT Survey Telescope at the…
Uncovering Stellar Mysteries – Astrophysicists Observe Blue Supergiants in Detail
Stars serve as the fundamental building blocks of galaxies and, by extension, the entire observable universe. Among the diverse spectrum of stars, those with a…
Beyond Visible Light: Unraveling the Secrets of Gamma-Ray Bursts
They also discovered a bright optical emission. Joseph Shklovsky, one of the pioneers of modern astrophysics, posited that a star’s existence is an eternal struggle…
Mind-Blowing Simulations of Stellar Convection Reveal What Makes Giant Stars Twinkle
Astrophysicists at the Flatiron Institute and their colleagues have created the first computer simulations showing how convection in the cores of massive stars generates waves…
Astronomers “Blown Away” by Weird Two-Faced Star
Unusual white dwarf star is made of hydrogen on one side and helium on the other. In a first for white dwarfs, the burnt-out cores…
Unraveling Cosmic Mysteries: Celestial Monsters and the Origins of Globular Clusters
Researchers from the universities of Geneva, Paris, and Barcelona have uncovered strong evidence that the peculiarities seen in sizable star clusters can be explained by…
Unmasking the Universe: Astrophysicist Catalogs All Known Planet-Hosting, Three-Star Systems
In triple-stellar systems, a pair of stars orbit each other while a third star orbits around the pair. Manfred Cuntz, a planetary physicist from The…
Astronomy & Astrophysics 101: Star
What Is a Star? A star is an approximately spherical body of plasma, which is held together by its own gravity and prevented from collapsing…
Behold! Rare Quasar Triplet Forms Most Massive Object in Universe
The ASTRID cosmological simulation, a massive simulation run on TACC’s Frontera supercomputer, is aiding in the investigation of ultra-massive black holes. Ultra-massive black holes are…
Spiral Pattern Provides New Clues Into How High-Mass Stars Form
Recent observations have uncovered a spiral pattern in the material disk surrounding a young, high-mass protostar, suggesting the presence of gravitational instability within the disk….
Earthly Applications of Cosmic Dust: Unveiling the Secrets of Interstellar Dust Grains
Gaining insight into the formation of dust grains in interstellar gas could provide astronomers with valuable knowledge and assist materials scientists in creating useful nanoparticles….
The Seven-Year Photobomb: Astronomers Discover Source of Distant Star’s Unusual Dimming
By their own admission, Anastasios “Andy” Tzanidakis and James Davenport are interested in unusual stars. The University of Washington astronomers were searching for “stars behaving…
New Research Shows That Something Strange Is Going On in the Butterfly Nebula
Planetary nebulae are formed when red giant stars reach the end of their helium fuel supply and eject their outer layers, becoming hot and dense…
James Webb Space Telescope Explores Star Formation in Distant Galaxies
Thanks to the James Webb Space Telescope’s first images of galaxy clusters, researchers have, for the very first time, been able to examine very compact…
Unlocking the Mystery of the Stellar Initial Mass Function: A New Breakthrough Discovery
The fate of galaxies is determined by the initial mass distribution at the birth of a new population of stars in the diverse and vast…
