New research reveals massive stars both exploded in tandem
‘A rare opportunity’ The discovery may offer insight into binary systems composed of massive stars. “This system provides…
Astronomers trace a 20-year radio mystery to clashing fields between two stars
Astronomers say they may be close to explaining a space mystery that has lingered for about 20 years:…
NASA’s DART spacecraft changed a binary asteroid’s orbit around the sun, in a first for a human-made object
When NASA crashed a spacecraft into the asteroid moonlet Dimorphos in 2022, it altered both Dimorphos’ orbit around…
Astronomers just watched a star 1,540 times the size of our sun transform into a hypergiant. Will it go supernova?
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Astronomers Caught a Record-Breaking Stellar Explosion on Camera and It Looks Nothing Like They Expected
An artistic impression of Nova V1674 Herculis. Credit: CHARA Array Astronomers pictured novae—the violent explosions that occur on…
These celestial objects survive the supermassive black hole at the center of the Milky Way
At the center of our galaxy, the Milky Way, there is a supermassive black hole about 4 million…
This star orbiting a black hole has a composition that surprises scientists
Many stars are present in the universe, and they also have various characteristics. But recently, astronomers have studied…