“I Jumped From My Chair” – Astronomers Discover a Hidden Star Orbiting Betelgeuse
This image shows the location of the red supergiant star Betelgeuse in the constellation of Orion (the Hunter).…
Space mystery leads scientists to discovery of ‘black hole stars’
Astronomers identify new type of ‘black hole star’ in universe while hunting space mystery A black hole star…
NASA’s James Webb Telescope Captures a Dying Star Sculpting a Cosmic Lion
The James Webb Space Telescope recently imaged planetary nebula NGC 2392, which is nicknamed the Lion Nebula due…
The Milky Way glows brightly in first-of-its-kind neutrino image
IceCube has produced the first neutrino image of the Milky Way, revealing high-energy particle activity concentrated along our…
Three supermassive black holes have been discovered in the same galaxy
If black holes fascinate astronomers, it is mainly because of their power, but also because of the many…
Huge space radars to track tiny objects could be assembled by robots
Space is becoming increasingly crowded, and tracking the objects orbiting Earth is becoming a harder engineering problem. NASA…
Astronomers have observed a wandering black hole shredding a star
ⓘ NASA – Unsplash An illustration showing a star and a galaxy. Astronomers have recently detected a black…
WHAT’S UP IN THE SKY: A look at the stars of Harry Potter | Astronomy
Today: One minor Harry Potter character actually has two well-known star names: Regulus Arcturus Black, the brother of…
Kelvin-Helmholtz instability seen on the Sun
The surface of the Sun has been photographed in more detail than ever before, and it turns out…
How to use your smartphone to capture the August eclipse over Europe
Millions of people will get to experience — and film or photograph — a rare total solar eclipse…
Cosmic river of gas may have tilted a young planet
A stream of gas falling into a triple-star system in the Orion constellation reveals how planets can end…
New cosmology model finds that dark matter doesn’t exist
A proposed cosmology model argues that the universe may contain ordinary matter alone, without dark matter or dark…