Rare ‘upside-down stars’ are shrouded in the remains of cannibalized suns
These stars appear to be almost ‘upside down,’ one expert said, because elements typically within stars are on their surface.
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The James Webb Space Telescope showed us its first star
As NASA engineers align and test the mirrors on the James Webb Space Telescope, they’ve shared its first composite image of an Ursa Major star.
Astronomers just mapped the ‘bubble’ that envelopes our planet
A new study reveals that our planet resides on the surface of the ‘Local Bubble,’ a cavity of cold gas and dust that formed our sun and other nearby stars.
Real shooting stars look a lot different than you’d expect
Idan Ginsburg is academic faculty in Physics and Astronomy, Georgia State University. This story originally published in The Conversation. “I see thy glory like a shooting star.” So says the Earl of Salisbury as he ruminates about the future in Shakespeare’s “Richard II.” During the English Renaissance, people believed shooting stars were luminaries falling from […]
Astronomers may have an origin story for ‘The Cow,’ a mysteriously powerful cosmic blast
Telescopes captured lots of data from an unusually bright, short-lived star explosion in June 2018. Such supernovae defy usual explanations.
Scientists just spotted a massive storm from a sun-like star
Scientists observed a star as it hurled plasma into space that proved more massive than any previously recorded for a sun-like star.
Watch a black hole devour simulated stars
Theoretical astrophysicists simulated the battle between stars and black holes to better understand how these events occur.
These two galaxies are locked in a cosmic battle
The Hubble Space Telescope recently captured space images of two galaxies in a gravitational battle in the Pegasus constellation.
A newly discovered planet orbiting a dead star offers a glimpse of Earth’s future
Scientists observed a white dwarf with an exoplanet surrounding it. This could shed light on what our solar system might become.
These strange radio signals might not be coming from stars
Astronomers may have discovered exoplanets by looking at radio signals, a method never before used to find planets.