The Hunt for Cosmic Dawn: HERA Doubles Sensitivity to Unlock the Secrets of the Early Universe
The latest data from HERA improves the search for cosmic dawn radiation and tests theories of galaxy formation. An array of 350 radio telescopes located…
The latest data from HERA improves the search for cosmic dawn radiation and tests theories of galaxy formation. An array of 350 radio telescopes located…
Researchers used the James Webb Space Telescope to examine primordial interstellar ices. An international team consisting of Southwest Research Institute, Leiden University, and NASA utilized…
Recent findings indicate that a significant number of stars exhibit irregularities in their cores. Scientists have discovered a method to examine the internal workings of…
A recent study has unveiled the true shape of the diffuse cloud of stars surrounding the disk of our galaxy, known as the stellar halo….
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….
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…