"This tangible evidence of a double detonation not only contributes towards solving a long-standing mystery, but also offers ...

Overall, the citizen scientists identified 10,001 eclipsing binary pairs. Of those, 7,936 were previously unknown.

Planetariums were a hit with the public. Within decades, they had spread around the world – the first planetarium in the ...

This is the first evidence for a white dwarf exploding not once, but twice. The discovery could shed new light on how some ...

For years, scientists have suspected that stars can meet their doom by a one-two punch of back-to-back explosions — but ...

With the bright Moon lighting the sky our focus is on easy-to-spot targets tonight, such as Albireo at the head of Cygnus the ...

The Sharjah Academy for Astronomy, Space Sciences, and Technology (SAASST) at the University of Sharjah (UoS) organised a ...

Figuring out the ages of stars is fundamental to understanding many areas of astronomy—yet, it remains a challenge since ...

The explosion of a star, called a supernova, is an immensely violent event. It usually involves a star more than eight times ...

Astronomy 101: Stars. In this video, explore the basic types and life cylces of the most common objects in the universe. By Liz Kruesi | Published: June 11, 2012 | Last updated on May 18, 2023.

Stars begin their careers in a kind of incubation. When a dense region happens to form in a huge cloud of gas and dust, the material that will make a star falls inward under the influence of gravity.

Astronomy: Stars reveal the secret of aging well Date: December 19, 2012 Source: ESA/Hubble Information Centre Summary: Some people are in great shape at the age of 90, while others are decrepit ...