The star is about 30 times more massive than our sun and has already shed 10 suns’ worth of gas and dust. NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) has recently unveiled some breathtaking views of the last stages of a … Read More
A strange case of a delayed eruption surprised astronomers. Supermassive black holes tear stars to pieces when they approach too closely. This is known as a tidal disruption event (TDE). The spewing out of material follows the destruction of the … Read More
Astronomers have concluded that the bright red supergiant star Betelgeuse literally blew its top in 2019, losing a significant portion of its visible surface and producing a massive Surface Mass Ejection (SME) after analyzing data from NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope … Read More
A star in the constellation Cassiopeia has just gone nova, according to news in The Astronomer’s Telegram, and the glow can still be seen in the night sky. If you live in the Northern Hemisphere and have access to a … Read More
Hidden in the center of the colorful swirl of gases is a dying star whose mass is approximately the mass of the Sun. With the aging of the stars, the nuclear reactions that sustain their brilliance begin to diminish. … Read More