In 2015, astrophysicists discovered a system consisting of two compact stars orbiting each other: a pulsar (i.e., a highly ...

Professor Werner says the new star is a challenge to everything that we know about stellar evolution. “Normally we expect stars with these surface compositions to have already finished burning ...

These enigmatic objects, observed in the open cluster M67, challenge our knowledge of stellar evolution and provide fresh insights into the dynamics of multiple star systems. To appreciate the ...

Its unique features highlight the dramatic processes that define stellar evolution. The image of WOH G64 was captured using the GRAVITY instrument on the Very Large Telescope (VLT), operated by ...

The evolution of the planets by separation of ... can be put together in the manner indicated above to yield the laws of stellar evolution.—Science ProgresS.

The Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC) is a satellite galaxy of the Milky Way and is located around 160,000 light years away from our solar system. This ...

their variability and importance for stellar evolution. More information: A. M. van Genderen et al, Investigation of the pulsations, outbursts, and evolution of the yellow hypergiants, Astronomy ...

Others form in the violent processes that mark the demise of more massive stars. Which stars form which elements, and how those elements form, is what stellar evolution and nucleosynthesis aims to ...