Stellar Evolution
Free Range Brown Dwarfs
[/caption] Using two of the world's largest optical-infrared telescopes, the Subaru Telescope in Hawaii and the Very Large Telescope (VLT)…
Sunny Side Up: New Image of the Fried Egg Nebula Reveals a Rare Yellow Hypergiant Star
[/caption] A new look at the Fried Egg Nebula has revealed one of the rarest classes of stars in the…
Stellar Superburst: Neutron Star Blows Away Model
[/caption]Imagine an event so catastrophic that it pours more energy out in three hours than the Sun does in a…
Solo Star Synthesis
[/caption] "Swing your partner round and round... Out of the cluster and out of town" While that's a facetious description…
Help! My Stars are Leaking!
[/caption] Star clusters are wonderful test beds for theories of stellar formation and evolution. One of the key roles they…
Colorful Cluster of Stars Competes with the Tarantula Nebula
[/caption] Who can shine the brightest in the Large Magellanic Cloud? A brilliant cluster of stars, open cluster NGC 2100…
“Impossible” Star Exists in Cosmic Forbidden Zone
[/caption] Astronomers say a newly found star should not exist and is in the “forbidden zone” of a widely accepted…
Hubble Movies “Star” Supersonic Jets
[/caption]Don't you know that you are a shooting star... Thanks to the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope, an international team of…
Shiny New Supernova Spotted in Nearby Galaxy
[/caption] Literally an event of stellar proportions, a new Type Ia supernova has been identified in a spiral galaxy 25…
WISE Discovers Some Really “Cool” Stars!
[/caption]What would you say if I told you there are stars with a temperature close to that of a human…