Astronomers Make Discovery of a Lifetime: Extremely Unusual Star – “Nobody Has Seen One Before!”
A team of astronomers have made the discovery of a lifetime that will help answer burning questions on the evolution of stars. The group is…
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NASA’s TESS Finds Almost 100 Quadruple Star Systems
NASA’s Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS) has found over 5000 candidate exoplanet candidates, and 197 confirmed exoplanets since its mission began in late 2018. TESS…
Astronomers Reveal Incredible Map of 4.4 Million Galaxies
A Durham University astronomer collaborating with a team of international scientists have mapped more than a quarter of the northern sky using the Low-Frequency Array…
Astronomers Discover a Strange New Type of Star Covered in Helium Burning Ashes
A team of German astronomers, led by Professor Klaus Werner of the University of Tübingen, has discovered a strange new type of star covered in…
Astronomers May Have Found the Secret Behind Mysterious Location of Massive Stars
Researchers found the secret seems to lie in the merging of medium-mass stars. Astronomers from Georgia State University have found an explanation for the strange…
Too Much Heavy Metal Causes Stars To “Act Quite Weirdly”
Stars are giant factories that produce most of the elements in the Universe – including the elements in us, and in the Earth’s metal deposits….
How Many Stars Are There in the Milky Way? In the Universe?
Do you ever wonder how many stars are in the sky? How many are in our Galaxy, the Milky Way? What about in the entire…
Earth Is Surrounded by 1,000-Light-Year Wide Bubble – Source of All Nearby, Young Stars
The Earth sits in a 1,000-light-year-wide void surrounded by thousands of young stars — but how did those stars form? In a paper appearing today…
Astronomers Discover the Least “Metallic” Stellar Structure in the Milky Way
98.5% of the Sun is made up of two light chemical elements, hydrogen and helium, while the remaining 1.5% consists of other heavier elements such…
Ruins of Ancient Star Cluster Discovered at the Fringes of Our Galaxy
Gemini Observatory helps reveal that a stream of old stars at Milky Way’s edge is a shredded star cluster. A primordial stellar stream discovered in…
First Evidence of Coronal Rain on a Cold Star?
Observations of a distant stellar flare could contain the first evidence of coronal rain on a cool, small M-dwarf star. High-resolution spectroscopic observations of a…
Astronomers Explore Cosmic Ray Influences on Star Formation in Galaxies
The triggering of star formation, and also its quenching, is regulated by young massive stars in galaxies which inject energy and momentum into the interstellar…
Secret Embraces of Stars – With Far-Reaching Consequences – Revealed by Gigantic Telescope
Unlike our Sun, most stars live with a companion. Sometimes, two come so close that one engulfs the other – with far-reaching consequences. When a…
Watch Stars Race Around the Milky Way’s Supermassive Black Hole at Mind-Boggling Speeds
The European Southern Observatory’s Very Large Telescope Interferometer (ESO’s VLTI) has obtained the deepest and sharpest images to date of the region around the supermassive…
Astronomers Unlock the Interior Structure of Beta Crucis – Reveal the Age of Massive Southern Cross Star
An international team of astronomers from Australia, the United States, and Europe has for the first time unlocked the interior structure of Beta Crucis –…
Surprise Planet Discovered Around Extreme Star Pair
The European Southern Observatory’s Very Large Telescope (ESO’s VLT) has captured an image of a planet orbiting b Centauri, a two-star system that can be…
Roasted and Shredded by a Stellar Sidekick: Astronomers Find White Dwarf Blasting a Companion Object
A white dwarf is blasting a companion object, which is either a low-mass star or a planet. The companion is likely receiving a barrage of…
Breakdown of Gyrochronology: Magnetic Fields Implicated in the Mysterious Midlife Crisis of Stars
Middle-aged stars can experience their own kind of midlife crisis, experiencing dramatic breaks in their activity and rotation rates at about the same age as…
