"This discovery heralds a broader understanding of the diversity in massive stars' deaths and a need for deeper investigations into the whole landscape of stellar evolution." ...

A new study of a star undergoing the throes of a supernova death has revealed that bursts of X-radiation known as fast-X-ray ...

Very massive stars are cosmic "rock stars" that live fast, die young and leave black holes in their place. During this ...

Using a combination of telescopes, astronomers have characterized the closest supernova linked to a fast X-ray transient. The ...

Researchers from the Xinjiang Astronomical Observatory (XAO) of the Chinese Academy of Sciences have made significant ...

The Hubble Space Telescope searches the universe to understand how planets, stars, and galaxies form. Recently, it captured ...

This unprecedented view of the Bullet Cluster provided by the James Webb Space Telescope and the Chandra X-ray Observatory ...

Astronomers have discovered a new star that is 30 times larger than the sun and could force a major rethink of stellar evolution theories. The star, designated J0524-0336 and located around 30,000 ...

Triple Star Systems: A Key to Understanding Stellar Evolution. Triple star systems, though accounting for about 10% of Sun-like stars, remain poorly understood.

Astronomers have taken the first ever image that shows what happens when a star explodes twice in a supernova.

Astro­physics: Star-child­hood shapes stel­lar evo­lu­tion Date: September 19, 2022 Source: University of Innsbruck Summary: In classical models of stellar evolution, so far little importance ...

A new study published in Nature Communications is shedding new light on the theory of stellar evolution. Astronomers at the University of Innsbruck have shown that the way a star forms has an impact ...