Astronomers have found a white dwarf that was once two white dwarfs. The pair of stars merged into one about…
Some stars die a beautiful death, ejecting their outer layers of gas into space, then lighting it all up with…
Stars live and die on epic time scales. Tens of millions of years, hundreds of millions of years, even billions…
A planetary nebula is one of the most beautiful objects in the universe. Formed from the decaying remnants of a…
A citizen scientist recently discovered a white dwarf star that has multiple dust rings, a finding which could force a…
A new study by an international team reveals that Eta Carinae will soon be so bright that we won't be…
New research using some of the latest Gaia mission data has revealed what happens to stars like our Sun once…
New research from the Hubble Space Telescope and the ESO's Very Large Telescope is dampening some of the enthusiasm in…
Apparently not all supernovas work. And when they fail, they leave behind a half-chewed remnant, still burning from leftover heat…
Imagine yourself in a boat on a great ocean, the water stretching to the distant horizon, with the faintest hints…