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…
Brace yourselves for great JWST views of the iconic Ring Nebula (M57). An international team of astronomers just released a…
What do you get when a hot young world orbits a wildly unstable young red dwarf? For AU Microsopii b,…
Determining the age of a star is surprisingly tricky and has wide error bars. It's only inside star clusters that…
The cosmic zoo has strange beasts that astronomers stumble across in the most fascinating ways. Not long ago a team…
The Gemini South telescope has captured a new image of the glowing nebula IC 2220. Nicknamed the Toby Jug Nebula,…
If you're an evil genius supervillain looking to freak out your enemy with a big messy space kablooie, here's a…
When astronomers talk about the "end states" of stellar evolution, several categories come to mind: black holes, neutron stars/pulsars, and…