A study shows that the most massive stars in the last stages of their lives are those which contaminate the interstellar medium with new chemical elements, giving rise to successive generations of ...

Two new images from the Gemini Observatory released today (Monday June 5th 2006) at the American Astronomical Society meeting in Calgary, Canada, show a pair of beautiful nebulae that were created by ...

What can binary stars comprised of two different types of stars teach astronomers about stellar evolution? This is what a recent study published in The Astrophysical Journal hopes to address as a team ...

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Astronomers have used a new type of extreme supernova in which a massive star was stripped right "down to the bone" to better ...

This revealed two distinct types of SEEs with different origins. One group is connected to solar flares exploding from small ...

For decades, scientists have been puzzled by the origin of strange, repeating radio signals from space that they call GLEAM-X J0704-37. Now, they’ve cracked the case, and the answer is captivating.

WASHINGTON, July 2 (Reuters) - The explosion of a star, called a supernova, is an immensely violent event. It usually involves a star more than eight times the mass of our sun that exhausts its ...