stellar evolution

Black Holes are Tearing Stars Apart All Around Us

Galaxy NGC3799 lies around 16 million light years from Earth. Any event observed today within that galaxy took place 16…

2 weeks ago

Webb Sees a System That Just Finished Forming its Planets

When a young star begins forming, it's spinning rapidly, surrounded by a flattened disk that grows its future planets. Once…

3 weeks ago

Dying Stars Could Have Completely New Habitable Zones

Aging stars that become red giants increase their luminosity and can wreak havoc on planets that were once in the…

1 month ago

Astronomers See 18 Examples of Stars Getting Torn Apart by Black Holes

Black holes have always held a special fascination for me ever since I was a geeky kid looking up at…

2 months ago

New Types of Hidden Stars Seen for the First Time

Astronomers performing a vast infrared variable star survey have discovered new additions to the stellar menagerie. These new types of…

2 months ago

Simulation Perfectly Matches What We See When Neutron Stars Collide

There are many mysteries in the world of astronomy and a fair number relate to the processes during the end…

3 months ago

One Side of This White Dwarf is Covered in Hydrogen While the Other Side is Helium.

Here's a new one. Astronomers have found a white dwarf star - the dead remnant from a main sequence star…

8 months ago

Celebrate a Year of JWST With This Ludicrous Image of Rho Ophiuchi

It's been a year since JWST began its operations, so the people behind the telescope released a stunning new image…

9 months ago

A Neutron Star is Unwinding a Companion Star

Astronomers have found a bizarre binary star system where a neutron star orbits with another star. Its companion used to…

9 months ago

A Planet Was Swallowed by a Red Giant, But it Survived

When our Sun runs out of hydrogen fuel in its core, it'll switch to burning helium and bloat up as…

9 months ago