Tags: stars

An international team of astronomers has observed and identified a new type of stellar explosion — a micronova. Using the European Southern Observatory’s (ESO) Very Large Telescope (VLT), the researchers...

Earth’s biggest construction project What if humans could harness all the sun’s energy? What if extraterrestrial civilizations have already learned to harvest the energy of stars? In 1960, physicist and...

Young stars can release flares more powerful than our sun’s largest on record once a week, according to a massive new analysis of stellar activity. Scientists believe that stellar flares...

A dramatic new image of a cosmic gas bubble reveals never-before-seen details of this birthplace of stars. The bubble surrounds the Westerlund 2 star cluster, one of the brightest star-forming...

A cluster composed of thousands of stars may dissolve to become a mob of dozens of black holes in a billion years, a new study finds. This dark fate may...

Astronomers have made the rare sighting of two stars spiraling to their doom by spotting the tell-tale signs of a teardrop-shaped star. The tragic shape is caused by a massive...

Historically most scientists thought that once a satellite galaxy has passed close by its higher mass parent galaxy, its star formation would stop because the larger galaxy would remove the...

Astronomers have identified many more or less spherical clumps of stars born together and still traveling together through space. We call them open star clusters; many are well known as...

Space Mysteries: An international team of astronomers is on the hunt for objects that should be impossible. Stars don’t just vanish — or do they? For thousands of years, astronomers...

What does a lead nucleus and a neutron star have in common? Scientists have made new estimates of the size of mysterious neutron stars, revealing that the ultradense stellar corpses...