Massive stars
Cooking Up Stars In Cygnus X
[/caption] Thanks to the incredible infra-red imagery of NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope, we're able to take a look into a…
Astronomy Without A Telescope – How Big Is Big?
[/caption] You may have seen one of these astronomical scale picture sequences, where you go from the Earth to Jupiter…
Massive Stars Start Life Big… Really BIG!
[/caption] It might be hard to believe, but massive stars are larger in their infant stage than they are when…
SOFIA Reveals Star-Forming Region W40
[/caption] Around 1957 light years away, a dense molecular cloud resides beside an OB star cluster locked in a massive…
Antique Stars Could Help Solve Mysteries Of Early Milky Way
[/caption] Utilizing ESO's giant telescopes located in Chile, researchers at the Niels Bohr Institute have been examining "antique" stars. Located…
A New Class for Tau Scorpii
Many classes of stars are named for an early, distinguished member of a certain type of stars. For example, Cepheid…
Magnetic Fields on O-Class Stars
[/caption] The primary method by which astronomers can measure magnetic field strength on stars is the Zeeman effect. This effect…
Most Massive Star Discovered: Over 300 Suns at Birth!
[/caption] Often, writing about astronomy tends to mirror the job of those writing for the Guinness Book of World Records…
New Movie Reveals Birth of Super-Suns
A two-year look at "proplyds," or protoplanetary disks in the constellation Orion has provided astronomers with a new high-resolution time-lapse…