Using the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array telescope, astronomers surveyed the cores of some of the…
Browsing: Stellar Evolution
Stellar evolution is the process by which a star undergoes a sequence of radical changes during its lifetime. Depending on the mass of the star, its life cycle can span from a few million years for the most massive stars to trillions of years for the least massive ones. The journey begins with the gravitational collapse of a cloud of gas and dust, leading to the formation of a protostar when the core temperature gets high enough to start nuclear fusion. In this phase, hydrogen nuclei fuse to form helium, releasing energy that makes the star shine.
By observing the last major growth spurt of galaxy clusters, which happened billions of years…
This newly released Hubble image shows bursts of gas from a young star creating structures…
New research challenges astronomers’ traditional views about stellar birthplaces, finding that giant molecular clouds are…
A new study from an international team of researchers has measured the lowest dust mass…
New research reveals the explosive growth of a young star, detailing that the newly formed…
Using the Pleiades supercomputer at the NASA Advanced Supercomputing (NAS) facility, researchers perform large-scale supercomputing…
Astronomers have developed a new computational algorithm that allows them to follow the star formation…
Using data from NASA’s Spitzer Space Telescope and the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array, a newly…
While studying 110 stars located in the Eagle Nebula, astronomers discovered pre-main-sequence stars that were…
A new study from researchers at Caltech details the collapse of rapidly rotating supermassive stars…
Using the Herschel Space Observatory and ALMA, researchers have discovered that the unusual disk around…
A newly published study sheds new light on star death, finding that the brightest supernovae…
Astronomers have completed the largest-ever survey of dense gas clouds in the Milky Way, cataloging…
In a newly published study, astronomers report key observations that confirm a theory on how…
A newly discovered jet of high-energy particles emanating from a dying star has helped scientists…
Astronomers used the Subaru Telescope to observe a disk around the young star RY Tau,…
A new theory from researchers at UC Berkeley explains how “zombie vortices” help lead to…