Dozens Of Massive ‘Runaway’ Stars Found Fleeing The Milky Way
The Milky Way can't hold onto all of its stars. Some of them get ejected into intergalactic space and spend ...
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Astronomers watched a massive star disappear. JWST might have some answers
In 2009 a giant star 25 times more massive than the sun simply vanished. OK, it wasn't quite that simple. ...
A Star Was Caught Swallowing a Planet in an Astronomical First
For the first time, astronomers have identified the flare of light as a dying star engulfs and destroys one of ...
We Can Now Hear The ‘Sound’ of One of The Most Beautiful Stars
You can now listen to the sounds of the space around one of the Milky Way's most spectacular stars. RS ...
Alien megastructures? Cosmic thumbprint? What’s behind a James Webb telescope photo that had even astronomers stumped
Peter Tuthill, University of Sydney In July, a puzzling new image of a distant extreme star system surrounded by surreal ...
Have you ever dreamed of naming an exoplanet? A new competition allows you to do that
The International Astronomical Union (IAU) is organizing a new competition called NameExoWorlds 2022, which allows you to name exoplanets and ...
‘First of its kind’ triple star system likely gobbled up a 4th star
Astronomers have detected a triple star system that is unlike any that has been seen before. The unusual trio of ...
How do stars appear? (Video)
How do stars appear? Here is a model of gas circulation with the formation of a star in intergalactic space ...
Astronomers observed how a black hole swallowed a star
What happens when a star gets too close to a supermassive black hole? The real story is that the black ...
(Video) This pair of stars move around each other for only 62 minutes
Astronomers have spotted a cosmic "black widow" star 3,000-4,000 light-years away from us, absorbing neighboring light. However, that is not ...