Rapid Neutron Capture: Astronomers Discover “Gold Standard” Star in Milky Way
A team of astronomers led by University of Michigan’s Ian Roederer and including Carnegie’s Erika Holmbeck have identified the widest range of elements yet observed…
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Supernova Forensics: Eight Years Later, a Mysterious Stellar Explosion Is Still Revealing Secrets
Study including University of Chicago researchers analyzes aftermath of 2014 supernova. An international group of astronomers has uncovered new clues about a mysterious stellar explosion…
Weird New Type of Stars – Covered in Helium Burning Ashes – Discovered by Astronomers
A German team of astronomers from the Universities of Tübingen and Potsdam, led by Prof. Klaus Werner, have discovered a new type of strange stars….
Simulating Supernova Remnants and Star Formation With a High-Power Laser in Earthbound Lab
High-power laser and foam ball show how blast waves from supernova remnant might trigger star formation in a molecular cloud. Molecular clouds are collections of…
An Intragalactic Treasure Hunt: Red Giant Stars’ Mass “Stolen” by Stellar Neighbors
Red Giant Stars Undergo Dramatic Weight Loss Program A new, slimmer type of red giant star has been identified by astronomers, who liken their discovery…
Cosmic Record Broken: Hubble Finds the Most Distant Star Ever Seen
The NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope has established an extraordinary new benchmark: detecting the light of a star that existed within the first billion years after…
Hubble Spots Farthest Star Ever Seen Thanks to Lucky Cosmic Alignment – “We Almost Didn’t Believe It”
A lucky cosmic alignment has revealed a single source of light in the first billion years after the big bang, setting up a major confirmation…
Mysterious Death of Carbon-Rich Star Plays Out Like Six-Ring Circus
Scientists studying V Hydrae (V Hya) have witnessed the star’s mysterious death throes in unprecedented detail. Using the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) and data…
Misbehaving Pulsars: Unexpected Changes in the Most Predictable of Stars
Pulsars, a class of neutron stars, are extremely predictable stars. They are formed from the hearts of massive stars that have since collapsed in on…
Astronomers Make Discovery of a Lifetime: Extremely Unusual Star – “Nobody Has Seen One Before!”
A team of astronomers have made the discovery of a lifetime that will help answer burning questions on the evolution of stars. The group is…
NASA’s TESS Finds Almost 100 Quadruple Star Systems
NASA’s Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS) has found over 5000 candidate exoplanet candidates, and 197 confirmed exoplanets since its mission began in late 2018. TESS…
Astronomers Reveal Incredible Map of 4.4 Million Galaxies
A Durham University astronomer collaborating with a team of international scientists have mapped more than a quarter of the northern sky using the Low-Frequency Array…
Astronomers Discover a Strange New Type of Star Covered in Helium Burning Ashes
A team of German astronomers, led by Professor Klaus Werner of the University of Tübingen, has discovered a strange new type of star covered in…
Astronomers May Have Found the Secret Behind Mysterious Location of Massive Stars
Researchers found the secret seems to lie in the merging of medium-mass stars. Astronomers from Georgia State University have found an explanation for the strange…
Too Much Heavy Metal Causes Stars To “Act Quite Weirdly”
Stars are giant factories that produce most of the elements in the Universe – including the elements in us, and in the Earth’s metal deposits….
How Many Stars Are There in the Milky Way? In the Universe?
Look up at the sky on a clear night, and you’ll see thousands of stars – about 6,000 or so. But that’s only a tiny…
Earth Is Surrounded by 1,000-Light-Year Wide Bubble – Source of All Nearby, Young Stars
The Earth sits in a 1,000-light-year-wide void surrounded by thousands of young stars — but how did those stars form? In a paper appearing today…
Astronomers Discover the Least “Metallic” Stellar Structure in the Milky Way
98.5% of the Sun is made up of two light chemical elements, hydrogen and helium, while the remaining 1.5% consists of other heavier elements such…
