Astronomers captured a glimpse of the innermost layers of a massive star before it exploded in a supernova, changing their ...

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

Astronomers have observed the calamitous result of a star that picked the wrong dance partner. They have documented what ...

One of the best places to study stars is inside "open clusters," which are groups of stars that formed together from the same ...

It took place some 750 million light-years away, flaring into the detectors of the Zwicky Transient Facility on 7 July. At ...

New type of star gives clues to mysterious origin of magnetars Date: August 17, 2023 Source: ESO Summary: Magnetars are the strongest magnets in the Universe. These super-dense dead stars with ...

Astronomers have discovered what may be a massive star exploding while trying to swallow a black hole companion, offering an ...

BERKELEY — Eta Carinae, the galaxy’s biggest, brightest and perhaps most studied star after the sun, has been keeping a secret: Its giant outbursts appear to be driven by an entirely new type ...

Magnetars and “zombie” stars: New type of ultrahigh magnetic star discovered A bizarre new star 43,000 times more magnetic than the sun may have just solved one of science's greatest mysteries ...

A team of German astronomers, led by Professor Klaus Werner of the University of Tübingen, have discovered a strange new type of star covered in the by-product of helium burning. It is possible ...