Manuscript From 1217 Offers Clues on a Recurring Nova
Every eight decades, the rather unassuming star T CrB in the Corona Borealis constellation dazzles skywatchers with a sudden brilliance….
Every eight decades, the rather unassuming star T CrB in the Corona Borealis constellation dazzles skywatchers with a sudden brilliance….
An astounding revelation from the cosmos has just been made: the James Webb Space Telescope has shed light on the…
Now this is very cool. Scientists have found a star that they say is barely hotter than a pizza oven….
It is rare for humans to notice changes in stars within a lifetime because stars don’t evolve fast enough for…
The most massive star known by astronomers is of gargantuan proportions. Dubbed R136a1, this is the most massive and luminous…
ESA’s Gaia mission has released the third installment of its results, including a database of the intrinsic properties of hundreds…
Researchers have concluded from data obtained by NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope and several other observatories that Betelgeuse, a bright red…
The Parker Solar Probe is humankind’s first spacecraft specifically designed to fly towards the Sun and “touch” our star and…
Tens of thousands of CPUs (Computer processors) and GPUs (Graphics processing units) helped astronomers identify a mysterious galactic source of…
Fast Radio Bursts (FRBs) are extremely powerful pulses of radio waves that don’t last very long, a few milliseconds perhaps,…
Astronomers have managed to obtain the first direct image of distant alien worlds orbiting a star similar to our Sun….
Somewhere in a faraway galaxy, a star has vanished, leaving experts stumped. A massive star in a distant galaxy has…
A new cosmic map has shown that the fifteenth brightest star in the sky, the supergiant Antares, is much bigger…
A spacecraft launched in 2018 and dubbed the Parker Solar Probe is set to touch the Sun and become the…
There’s a strange star speeding through our galaxy at an unfathomable speed. PSR J0002+6216 was spotted by astronomers traveling through…