What can binary stars comprised of two different types of stars teach astronomers about stellar evolution? This is what a recent study published in The Astrophysical Journal hopes to address as a team ...

Two new images from the Gemini Observatory released today (Monday June 5th 2006) at the American Astronomical Society meeting in Calgary, Canada, show a pair of beautiful nebulae that were created by ...

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Astronomers have used a new type of extreme supernova in which a massive star was stripped right "down to the bone" to better ...

A thin gap has been discovered on the Hertzsprung-Russell Diagram (HRD). This is the most fundamental of all maps in stellar astronomy, a finding that provides new information about the interior ...

This revealed two distinct types of SEEs with different origins. One group is connected to solar flares exploding from small ...

WASHINGTON, July 2 (Reuters) - The explosion of a star, called a supernova, is an immensely violent event. It usually involves a star more than eight times the mass of our sun that exhausts its ...

Scientists used new data taken by the James Webb Space Telescope to make a new reading of the rate at which the universe is expanding over time, by measuring light from 10 galaxies including the one ...