Star

Ivan Petricevic | Posted on September 13, 2023 |

Every eight decades, the rather unassuming star T CrB in the Corona Borealis constellation dazzles skywatchers with a sudden brilliance….

Ivan Petricevic | Posted on August 9, 2023 |

An astounding revelation from the cosmos has just been made: the James Webb Space Telescope has shed light on the…

Ivan Petricevic | Posted on July 17, 2023 |

Now this is very cool. Scientists have found a star that they say is barely hotter than a pizza oven….

Ivan Petricevic | Posted on September 5, 2022 |

It is rare for humans to notice changes in stars within a lifetime because stars don’t evolve fast enough for…

Ivan Petricevic | Posted on August 19, 2022 |

The most massive star known by astronomers is of gargantuan proportions. Dubbed R136a1, this is the most massive and luminous…

Ivan Petricevic | Posted on August 11, 2022 |

ESA’s Gaia mission has released the third installment of its results, including a database of the intrinsic properties of hundreds…

Ivan Petricevic | Posted on August 11, 2022 |

Researchers have concluded from data obtained by NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope and several other observatories that Betelgeuse, a bright red…

Ivan Petricevic | Posted on February 10, 2022 |

The Parker Solar Probe is humankind’s first spacecraft specifically designed to fly towards the Sun and “touch” our star and…

Ivan Petricevic | Posted on October 24, 2020 |

Tens of thousands of CPUs (Computer processors) and GPUs (Graphics processing units) helped astronomers identify a mysterious galactic source of…

Ivan Petricevic | Posted on August 4, 2020 |

Fast Radio Bursts (FRBs) are extremely powerful pulses of radio waves that don’t last very long, a few milliseconds perhaps,…

Ivan Petricevic | Posted on July 23, 2020 |

Astronomers have managed to obtain the first direct image of distant alien worlds orbiting a star similar to our Sun….

Justin Gurkinic | Posted on July 1, 2020 |

Somewhere in a faraway galaxy, a star has vanished, leaving experts stumped. A massive star in a distant galaxy has…

Justin Gurkinic | Posted on June 18, 2020 |

A new cosmic map has shown that the fifteenth brightest star in the sky, the supergiant Antares, is much bigger…

Ivan Petricevic | Posted on June 13, 2020 |

A spacecraft launched in 2018 and dubbed the Parker Solar Probe is set to touch the Sun and become the…

Ivan Petricevic | Posted on March 25, 2019 |

There’s a strange star speeding through our galaxy at an unfathomable speed. PSR J0002+6216 was spotted by astronomers traveling through…