Extreme Magnetic Fields and Temperature Variation of Distant Magnetars
New research is helping to explain one of the big questions that has perplexed astrophysicists for the past 30 years — what causes the changing…
New research is helping to explain one of the big questions that has perplexed astrophysicists for the past 30 years — what causes the changing…
This image, taken with the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope, depicts a special class of star-forming nursery known as Free-floating Evaporating Gaseous Globules, or frEGGs for…
Using telescopes from the European Southern Observatory (ESO) and other organizations around the world, astronomers have spotted a rare blast of light from a star…
Astronomers from The University of Western Australia’s node of the International Centre for Radio Astronomy Research (ICRAR) have developed a new way to study star…
An observation campaign led by ESA’s XMM-Newton space observatory reveals the youngest pulsar ever seen – the remnant of a once-massive star – that is…
Using a limited set of mathematical equations, Worcester Polytechnic Institute mathematical sciences professor Mayer Humi said he has confirmed a 224-year-old math conjecture about the…
Star formation in molecular clouds usually occurs in a two-step process. Supersonic flows first compress the clouds into dense filaments light-years long, after which gravity…
Astronomers present an explanation for the mesmerizing shapes of planetary nebulae. The discovery is based on an extraordinary set of observations of stellar winds around…
For the first time, an intact, giant exoplanet has been discovered orbiting close to a white dwarf star. This discovery shows that it is possible…
Colliding neutron stars were touted as the main source of some of the heaviest elements in the Periodic Table. Now, not so much … Neutron…
Using a NASA-designed software program, members of the public helped identify a cache of brown dwarfs — sometimes called failed stars — lurking in our…
A team including researchers from the Institute for Astrophysics of the University of Cologne has for the first time directly observed the columns of matter…
Massive stars are larger than about 10 times the mass of the Sun and are born far less often than their low mass counterparts. However,…
Astronomers using the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) took a census of stellar eggs in the constellation Taurus and revealed their evolution state. This census…
A mystery surrounding the space around our solar system is unfolding thanks to evidence of supernovae found in deep-sea sediments. Professor Anton Wallner, a nuclear…
The most massive stars in the universe are born inside cosmic clouds of gas and dust, where they leave behind clues about their lives for…
Solar flares emit sudden, strong bursts of electromagnetic radiation from the Sun’s surface and its atmosphere, and eject plasma and energetic particles into inter-planetary space….
Dome A, the highest ice dome on the Antarctic Plateau, could offer the clearest view on Earth of the stars at night, according to new…