Galaxy NGC3799 lies around 16 million light years from Earth. Any event observed today within that galaxy took place 16…
When a young star begins forming, it's spinning rapidly, surrounded by a flattened disk that grows its future planets. Once…
Aging stars that become red giants increase their luminosity and can wreak havoc on planets that were once in the…
Black holes have always held a special fascination for me ever since I was a geeky kid looking up at…
Astronomers performing a vast infrared variable star survey have discovered new additions to the stellar menagerie. These new types of…
There are many mysteries in the world of astronomy and a fair number relate to the processes during the end…
Here's a new one. Astronomers have found a white dwarf star - the dead remnant from a main sequence star…
It's been a year since JWST began its operations, so the people behind the telescope released a stunning new image…
Astronomers have found a bizarre binary star system where a neutron star orbits with another star. Its companion used to…
When our Sun runs out of hydrogen fuel in its core, it'll switch to burning helium and bloat up as…