Stars News
May 21, 2024
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May 15, 2024 Looking like a glittering cosmic geode, a trio of dazzling stars blaze from the hollowed-out cavity of a reflection nebula in a new image from NASA's Hubble Space Telescope. The triple-star system is made up of the variable star HP Tau, HP Tau G2, ...
May 15, 2024 Astronomers have just discovered a new Earth-sized exoplanet around SPECULOOS-3, an 'ultracool dwarf' star as small as Jupiter, twice as cold as our Sun, and located 55 light-years from Earth. After ...
May 14, 2024 Astronomers have just discovered WASP-193b, an extraordinarily low-density giant planet orbiting a distant Sun-like ...
May 14, 2024 Astronomers discovered three of the oldest stars in the universe, and they live in our own galactic neighborhood. The stars are in the Milky Way's 'halo' -- the cloud of stars that envelopes the ...
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May 10, 2024 Astronomers have proposed a new theory to explain the origin of phosphorus, one of the elements important for life on Earth. The theory suggests a type of stellar explosion known as ONe novae as a ...
May 9, 2024 Astrophysicists discovered that an exoplanet is covered with so many active volcanoes that seen from a distance it would take on a fiery, glowing-red ...
May 9, 2024 A recent study has discovered a novel method for detecting the first-generations stars, known as Population III (Pop III) stars, which have never been directly detected. These potential discoveries ...
Apr. 30, 2024 NASA's James Webb Space Telescope has captured the sharpest infrared images to date of a zoomed-in portion of one of the most distinctive objects in our skies, the Horsehead Nebula. These ...
Apr. 29, 2024 Astronomers have confirmed that differences in binary stars' composition can originate from chemical variations in the cloud of stellar material from which they formed. The results help explain why ...
Apr. 26, 2024 Researchers co-led a study that will improve the detection of gravitational waves--ripples in space and ...
Apr. 24, 2024 While ESA's satellite INTEGRAL was observing the sky, it spotted a burst of gamma-rays -- high-energy photons -- coming from the nearby galaxy M82. Only a few hours later, ESA's XMM-Newton X-ray ...
Apr. 22, 2024 Astronomers have produced the first high-resolution map of a massive explosion in a nearby galaxy, providing important clues on how the space between galaxies is polluted with chemical ...
Apr. 17, 2024 Astronomers have discovered methane emission on a brown dwarf, an unexpected finding for such a cold and isolated world. The findings suggest that this brown dwarf might generate aurorae similar to ...
Apr. 16, 2024 Astronomers have identified the most massive stellar black hole yet discovered in the Milky Way galaxy. This black hole was spotted in data from the European Space Agency's Gaia mission because it ...
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Apr. 12, 2024 An international research team has for the first time directly detected stellar winds from three Sun-like stars by recording the X-ray emission from their astrospheres, and placed constraints on the ...
Apr. 12, 2024 A star's magnetic field must be considered in order to correctly determine the characteristics of exoplanets from observations by space telescopes such as Kepler, James Webb, or PLATO. ...
Apr. 11, 2024 When astronomers looked at a stellar pair at the heart of a stunning cloud of gas and dust, they were in for a surprise. Star pairs are typically very similar, like twins, but in HD 148937, one star ...
Apr. 11, 2024 Researchers have found that baby stars discharge plumes of gas, dust, and magnetic flux from their protostellar disk. The protostellar disk that surrounds developing stars are constantly penetrated ...
Apr. 5, 2024 New observations provide insights into whether the birth of the giant planets takes a similar course to that of ...
Apr. 5, 2024 Scientists may be one step closer to unlocking one of the great mysteries of the universe after calculating that neutron stars might hold a key to helping us understand elusive dark ...
Apr. 4, 2024 Densely packed, fast-moving stars at the Milky Way's center can collide with each other. New research uses simulations to explore the outcomes of these collisions. Some collisions are more like ...
Apr. 3, 2024 A team of astronomers has used NASA's James Webb Space Telescope to survey the starburst galaxy Messier 82 (M82). Located 12 million light-years away in the constellation Ursa Major, this galaxy ...
Mar. 28, 2024 New research has discovered a rare dust particle trapped in an ancient extra-terrestrial meteorite that was formed by a star other than our ...
Mar. 28, 2024 The ALMA radio telescope has detected more than 100 molecular species, including many indicative of different star formation and evolution processes, in a galaxy where stars are forming much more ...
Mar. 27, 2024 Planets form in disks of dust and gas called protoplanetary disks that whirl around a central protostar during its final ...
Mar. 27, 2024 Astronomers have measured the speed of fast-moving jets in space, crucial to star formation and the distribution of elements needed for life. The jets of matter, expelled by stars deemed 'cosmic ...
Mar. 26, 2024 Astronomers have concluded that an obscure class of galaxies known as Compact Symmetric Objects, or CSOs, are not young as previously thought but rather lead relatively short ...
Mar. 26, 2024 An orange dwarf star has yielded the tiniest 'starquakes' ever recorded, measured by an international team of ...
Mar. 25, 2024 New work aimed to study the star-forming gas in a single radio galaxy. Although the team didn't find any star-forming gas in the galaxy they were studying, they instead discovered other galaxies ...
Mar. 20, 2024 The first generation of stars transformed the universe. Inside their cores, simple hydrogen and helium fused into a rainbow of elements. When these stars died, they exploded and sent these new ...
Mar. 13, 2024 Physicists often turn to the Rayleigh-Taylor instability to explain why fluid structures form in plasmas, but that may not be the full story when it comes to the ring of hydrogen clumps around ...
Mar. 11, 2024 The formation of stars and the chaotic environments they inhabit is one of the most well-studied, but also mystery-shrouded, areas of cosmic investigation. The intricacies of these processes are now ...
Mar. 6, 2024 Neutron star mergers are a treasure trove for new physics signals, with implications for determining the true nature of dark matter, according to ...
Mar. 6, 2024 A galaxy that suddenly stopped forming new stars more than 13 billion years ago has been observed by astronomers. Using the James Webb Space Telescope, astronomers have spotted a 'dead' ...
Friday, April 12, 2024
Thursday, April 11, 2024
- Beautiful Nebula, Violent History: Clash of Stars Solves Stellar Mystery
- Twinkle Twinkle Baby Star, 'sneezes' Tell Us How You Are
Friday, April 5, 2024
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Wednesday, April 3, 2024
Thursday, March 28, 2024
Wednesday, March 27, 2024
- Astronomers Conduct First Search for Forming Planets With New Space Telescope
- 'Cosmic Cannibals' Expel Jets Into Space at 40 Percent the Speed of Light
Tuesday, March 26, 2024
- Sleeping Supermassive Black Holes Awakened Briefly by Shredded Stars
- Tiniest 'starquake' Ever Detected
Monday, March 25, 2024
Wednesday, March 20, 2024
Wednesday, March 13, 2024
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Wednesday, March 6, 2024
- Finding New Physics in Debris from Colliding Neutron Stars
- Astronomers Spot Oldest 'dead' Galaxy Yet Observed
- Discovery Tests Theory on Cooling of White Dwarf Stars
Tuesday, March 5, 2024
- Groundbreaking Survey Reveals Secrets of Planet Birth Around Dozens of Stars
- What Makes Black Holes Grow and New Stars Form? Machine Learning Helps Solve the Mystery
Monday, March 4, 2024
Friday, March 1, 2024
- New Insights on How Galaxies Are Formed
- Ultraviolet Radiation from Massive Stars Shapes Planetary Systems
Thursday, February 29, 2024
Monday, February 26, 2024
Thursday, February 22, 2024
- Webb Finds Evidence for Neutron Star at Heart of Young Supernova Remnant
- A New Beginning: The Search for More Temperate Tatooines
Thursday, February 15, 2024
Tuesday, February 6, 2024
Thursday, February 1, 2024
Wednesday, January 31, 2024
Monday, January 29, 2024
Friday, January 26, 2024
- Astronomers Unravel Mysteries of Planet Formation and Evolution in Distant Planetary System
- Stars Travel More Slowly at Milky Way's Edge
- 'Old Smokers' and 'squalling Newborns' Among Hidden Stars Spotted for First Time
Thursday, January 18, 2024
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Sunday, January 14, 2024
Friday, January 12, 2024
Thursday, January 11, 2024
- Close Encounters of the Supermassive Black Hole Kind
- Our Surprising Magnetic Galaxy
- Astronomers Make Rare Exoplanet Discovery, and a Giant Leap in Detecting Earth-Like Bodies
Tuesday, January 9, 2024
- NASA's Webb Finds Signs of Possible Aurorae on Isolated Brown Dwarf
- Unlocking the Secrets of a 'Hot Saturn' And Its Spotted Star
Monday, January 8, 2024
Thursday, December 28, 2023
Thursday, December 21, 2023
- Astronomers Detect Seismic Ripples in Ancient Galactic Disk
- New 1.5-Billion-Pixel Image Shows Running Chicken Nebula in Unprecedented Detail
Friday, December 15, 2023
- Scientists Measure the Distance to Stars by Their Music
- Astronomers Discover First Population of Binary Stripped Stars
- Reaching for the (Invisible) Stars
Thursday, December 14, 2023
Wednesday, December 13, 2023
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Thursday, December 7, 2023
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Tuesday, December 5, 2023
- Unlocking Neutron Star Rotation Anomalies: Insights from Quantum Simulation
- Astronomers Determine the Age of Three Mysterious Baby Stars at the Heart of the Milky Way
Monday, December 4, 2023
- 10-Billion-Year, 50,000-Light-Year Journey to Black Hole
- Dark Galactic Region Nicknamed 'The Brick' Explained With Webb Telescope Findings
Thursday, November 30, 2023
- Discovery of Planet Too Big for Its Sun Throws Off Solar System Formation Models
- Rocky Planets Can Form in Extreme Environments
Wednesday, November 29, 2023
- An Astronomical Waltz Reveals a Sextuplet of Planets
- Building Blocks for Life Could Have Formed Near New Stars and Planets
- New Astrophysics Model Sheds Light on Additional Source of Long Gamma-Ray Bursts
- Astronomers Discover Disc Around Star in Another Galaxy
Tuesday, November 28, 2023
Tuesday, November 21, 2023
- Dwarf Galaxies Use 10-Million-Year Quiet Period to Churn out Stars
- NASA's Webb Reveals New Features in Heart of Milky Way
- 'Triple Star' Discovery Could Revolutionize Understanding of Stellar Evolution
Wednesday, November 15, 2023
- An Old Star With Ring-Like Structure: ALMA Demonstrates Highest Resolution Yet
- With Unprecedented Flares, Stellar Corpse Shows Signs of Life
Thursday, November 9, 2023
- Extended Habitability of Exoplanets Due to Subglacial Water
- Scientists Find 14 New Transient Objects in Space by Peering Through the 'Christmas Tree Galaxy Cluster'
Tuesday, October 31, 2023
Wednesday, October 25, 2023
Wednesday, October 18, 2023
Wednesday, October 11, 2023
- NASA's Webb Captures an Ethereal View of NGC 346
- Researchers Capture First-Ever Afterglow of Huge Planetary Collision in Outer Space
Tuesday, October 10, 2023
Friday, October 6, 2023
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Wednesday, September 27, 2023
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Friday, September 8, 2023
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Thursday, August 31, 2023
- Scientists Detect and Validate the Longest-Period Exoplanet Found With TESS
- Unprecedented Gamma-Ray Burst Explained by Long-Lived Jet