Astronomers captured a glimpse of the innermost layers of a massive star before it exploded in a supernova, changing their ...

A weird and extremely violent new type of supernova in which a massive star was "stripped to the bone," offers a rare glimpse ...

Astronomers have observed the calamitous result of a star that picked the wrong dance partner. They have documented what ...

The rare blast peeled back the inner layers of a dying star, offering clues to how the elements that make up life on Earth ...

One of the best places to study stars is inside "open clusters," which are groups of stars that formed together from the same ...

New type of star gives clues to mysterious origin of magnetars Date: August 17, 2023 Source: ESO Summary: Magnetars are the strongest magnets in the Universe. These super-dense dead stars with ...

BERKELEY — Eta Carinae, the galaxy’s biggest, brightest and perhaps most studied star after the sun, has been keeping a secret: Its giant outbursts appear to be driven by an entirely new type ...

Star Gazers host Trace Dominguez breaks down the 5 different types of nebulae.

A team of German astronomers, led by Professor Klaus Werner of the University of Tübingen, have discovered a strange new type of star covered in the by-product of helium burning.

Magnetars are the strongest magnets in the Universe. These super-dense dead stars with ultra-strong magnetic fields can be found all over our galaxy but astronomers don’t know exactly how they ...