Astronomers have seen a huge star explode in a fiery supernova for the first time ever. The event was even more spectacular than the scientists had expected. According to a new study published in the Astrophysical Journal on January 6, … Read More
What is slightly larger than our Moon but nearly 1.4 times the mass of our Sun? ZTF J1901+1458, one of the tiniest white dwarf stars ever discovered. A series of ground- and space-based telescopes observed the dying husk of a … Read More
A gleaming new Hubble Space Telescope image captures the glow of thousands upon thousands of stars in an ancient globular cluster near the Milky Way’s heart. A globular cluster is a massive collection of stars that are attracted in close … Read More
The Kepler Space Telescope has been scanning the cosmos for habitable worlds beyond our Solar System since its first light in 2009. During one of its routine observations, the telescope noticed something very unusual. A strange and intriguing star sits … Read More
During a time that humankind’s ancestors were learning to walk upright, use their hands, and create the first primitive tools, cosmic events left a mark in our galaxy that our developed society would later see, millions of years later. Five … Read More
These star clusters are seemingly defying the laws of physics. Astronomers are puzzled by the strange behavior of certain crooked star clusters, which appear to defy gravity’s conventional understanding. Massive star clusters are typically bound together in spirals at the … Read More