Black holes have always held a special fascination for me ever since I was a geeky kid looking up at…
About 40,000 light-years away, a rapidly spinning object has a companion that's confounding astronomers. It's heavier than the heaviest neutron…
About 16,000 light-years away, a massive star experienced an unusual dimming event. This can happen in binary stars when one…
The core of our Milky Way is buzzing with stars. Recently astronomers reported that it contains at least one ancient…
Some stars are stuck in bad binary relationships. A massive primary star feeds on its smaller companion, sucking gas from…
In September 2022, an automated sky survey detected what seemed to be a supernova explosion about one billion light-years away.…
What happens just before a massive star explodes as a supernova? To figure that out, astronomers need to look at…
We recently got a new image of the famous Ring Nebula from JWST using its NIRCam instrument. This week we…
Imagine a living star with a magnetic field at least 100,000 times stronger than Earth's field. That's the strange stellar…
Stars begin as giant clouds of gas and dust that pull together through mutual gravity into a dense protostar. At…