Space Astronomers Capture Breathtaking Image of Star-Studded Rosette Nebula While it appears faint through telescopes, the long-exposure image taken by DECam reveals its true splendor, showing the dense molecular clouds and “elephant trunks”—dark, dust-filled pillars believed to contain nascent stars.
Space Hubble Captures Explosive Star Duo in Mesmerizing Detail The material from these stellar eruptions now extends roughly 248 billion miles from the central core, showcasing one of the most spectacular examples of symbiotic star interaction in our galaxy.
Space Astronomers Solve 30-Year Mystery of Brown Dwarf Gliese 229 B Once believed to be a single failed star, new research reveals that it is actually a pair of closely orbiting brown dwarfs, now named Gliese 229 Ba and Gliese 229 Bb.
Space Scientists Discover Earth-Sized Planet in Habitable Zone, Raising Hopes for Extraterrestrial Life The amount of starlight it receives falls between the levels Earth and Venus experience, making it a prime candidate for further study on the factors that determine planetary habitability.
Space Ancient Stars Near the Sun May Rewrite the History of the Milky Way The study, which used data from the Gaia spacecraft, revealed that these ancient stars are located within the thin disk of the Milky Way—a region that was thought to have formed around 8 to 10 billion years ago.
Space Scientists Predict Spectacular Star Explosion Visible to the Naked Eye NASA plans to use multiple space-based and ground-based telescopes to observe the nova across different wavelengths gain a comprehensive understanding of the event.
Space Hubble Captures Young Sun-like Star in a Striking New Image The star, known as HP Tau, is just 10 million years old and has yet to initiate nuclear fusion. It is part of a triple-star system that includes HP Tau G2 and HP Tau G3, shining brightly from a hollow in a reflection nebula.
Space Revived Magnetar Surprises Scientists with Unprecedented Radio Signals The recent observations have shown that the light emitted by this magnetar is circularly polarized, appearing to spiral as it moves through space, a phenomenon never seen before with such intensity.
Space Hubble Captures Stellar Field in Milky Way's Satellite Galaxy This globular cluster, positioned about 162,000 light-years from Earth, showcases an impressive collection of stars with a total mass of around 170,000 suns, all approximately the same age.
Space Hubble Telescope Captures Birth of a Star in Vivid Detail The observations of FS Tau B add to our understanding of the complex life cycle of stars and offer a glimpse into the conditions that prevail in one of the closest star-forming regions to Earth.
Space Rare Nova to Illuminate the Night Sky with a ‘New Star’ This Year T CrB is a binary system comprising a red giant and a white dwarf, where the latter siphons material from its neighbor until a critical mass is reached, sparking a thermonuclear fusion on its surface.
Space Webb Telescope Discovers Evidence of Universe's Earliest Stars in Distant Galaxy The WST has unveiled traces of Population III stars— the universe's original stellar inhabitants, composed solely of hydrogen and helium, elements from the dawn of time.
Space Astronomers Discover the Smallest Star Ever in an Exotic Binary System Situated within a binary system alongside its larger counterpart, the unseen white dwarf J0526A, this stellar duo dances around each other with astonishing speed, completing one orbit in just 20 minutes.
Space 1.5-Billion-Pixel Image Reveals the Running Chicken Nebula in Stunning Detail This colossal image is a mosaic composed of hundreds of meticulously stitched-together frames, each captured through filters that allow different colors of light to pass through.
Space NGC 2264 is a Stunning "Christmas Tree Cluster" Illuminated by Telescopes The blue and white lights, which appear to blink in the animated version of the image, represent young stars emitting X-rays, a phenomenon detected by NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory.
Space Astronomers Unravel the Mystery Behind the Most Powerful Space Explosion Initially mistaken for a supernova, AT2022aedm stood out due to its extreme brightness and rapid fade. Unlike typical supernovas, which gradually dim over months, AT2022aedm dimmed to just 1% of its original brightness in just 14 days.
Space Astronomers Unlock a Cosmic Mystery with the Discovery of a New Star Type This newly found massive helium star may provide insights into the origins of magnetars – extremely dense remnants of dead stars with ultra-strong magnetic fields that have baffled scientists for years.
Space Astronomers Reveal What a Twinkling Star Sounds Like While this natural twinkle isn't visible to telescopes on Earth, the Northwestern University research team achieved a breakthrough. They accurately modeled the energy rippling caused by convection in a star's core and then translated these patterns into sound.
Space NASA Released Webb's New Image of a Small Star-Forming Region The featured image reveals the nearest star-forming region to us, located 390 light-years away. Its proximity allows for an unprecedented close-up view, devoid of foreground stars that would otherwise obstruct the scene.
Space Astronomers Discover a Collapsing Star Turning into a Gigantic Diamond Since the age of the universe is approximately 13.8 billion years, diamond stars have not yet fully formed, but some are already starting to undergo this extraordinary metamorphosis. HD 190412 C is believed to be one such object.
Space Astronomers Discover Two Super-Earths Orbiting a Star Nearby Using NASA's Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS), a group of astronomers were able to discover two super-Earths that revolve around a nearby red dwarf known as TOI-2095 within its habitable zone.
Space Astronomers Spotted a Star Swallowing Its Planet for the First Time The Sun will swallow the three closest planets to it (Mercury, Venus, and Earth) when it enters the red giant stage in about five billion years. According to scientists, this observation gave the first real idea of how this engulfment occurs.
Space You Can Now Compare the Sizes of Different Space Objects on a Dedicated Website The website is called Space Object Comparison. It includes the following categories of space objects that can be compared: black holes, space objects from the solar system, Alpha Centauri, Kepler-10 system, Sirius system, and others.
Space We Can Now Hear the Sound of One of the Milky Way's Most Beautiful Stars Converting visual data into auditory data makes it more accessible to people with visual impairments. In addition, this approach can reveal details in the data, like patterns and weaker signals, that might otherwise be overlooked.
Space Hubble Telescope Finds a Black Hole Twisting a Star into a Doughnut as It Swallows It Scientists say that a star is only torn apart in this way a few times every 100 thousand years in a galaxy with a supermassive black hole at its core. These stellar killings are called "tidal disruption events."