Two new images from the Gemini Observatory released today (Monday June 5th 2006) at the American Astronomical Society meeting in Calgary, Canada, show a pair of beautiful nebulae that were created by ...

A study shows that the most massive stars in the last stages of their lives are those which contaminate the interstellar medium with new chemical elements, giving rise to successive generations of ...

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A study of more than 26,000 white dwarf stars has confirmed a long-predicted but elusive effect in these ultra-dense, dying stars: Hotter white dwarfs are slightly puffier than cooler ones, even when ...

In a recent astronomical revelation, scientists have detected a galactic-scale “heartbeat” rhythm pulsating within stars billions of light-years away from Earth. This entrancing cosmic rhythm offers a ...

Some stars nearing the end of their lives slow their spin in a “retirement solo” that not only shows the end is nigh but also how others are born. Chinese astronomers have used this cosmic dance to ...