Tags: stars

New study led by the University of Warwick indicates that globular clusters may be only about 9 billion years old, according to new models developed by astronomers. The discovery brings...

An international team of astronomers using ESA’s Gaia satellite, spotted some candidates for fastest stars in the Milky Way. Just last week, mission specialists behind ESA’s Gaia satellite announced the...

Searching for objects located in deep space is not easy and it requires long time observations using telescopes. Now, the most distant individual star – named Icarus by astronomers –...

‘Oumuamua, the rocky object identified as the first confirmed interstellar asteroid, originates from a binary star system and was most probably ejected during the formation of planets. Binary systems are...

While looking for an unusual star in the nearby Andromeda galaxy, astronomers instead discovered a unique pair of supermassive black holes. The binary system is the most closely orbiting pair...

Nicknamed Death Star beams, they are nature’s very own ultra-powerful jets of energy that emerge from the vicinity of black holes. It’s a mysterious cosmic phenomenon and how these powerful...

Astronomers have observed a gigantic cosmic collision between two neutron stars. This spectacular cosmic event was seen for the very first time. The light was detected by VIRGO, an observatory...

Astronomers are now more and more certain that our Sun did have a twin, a star dubbed Nemesis, because it was supposed to have kicked an asteroid into Earth’s orbit...

– Astronomers have spotted a rare, pulsating star that is expanding and contracting in a unique pattern in three different directions, simultaneously on a scale of once every 2.5 hours....