Astronomers using the James Webb telescope alongside Canada's CHIME telescope have pinpointed the origin of one of the ...

High in the Milky Way, a dying giant has thrown astronomers a cosmic curveball. A star known as DFK 52, sitting in the massive Stephenson 2 cluster about 19,000 light-years away, has been caught ...

Astronomers captured a glimpse of the innermost layers of a massive star before it exploded in a supernova, changing their ...

Stars die and vanish from sight all the time, but astronomers were puzzled when one that had been stable for more than a decade almost disappeared for eight months.

Astronomers using AI have captured a once-in-a-lifetime cosmic event: a massive star’s violent death triggered by its black ...

At about 1,700 years old, MSH 15-52, sometimes called the "cosmic hand" or " hand of God " for its unusual shape, is one of ...

Learn more about what a star’s color means and while you’ll never see a twinkling green star in the night sky.

Astronomers using NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope have found strong signs of a giant planet orbiting a star in the Alpha ...

The star, called DFK 52, is a member of a cluster of similar red supergiants, but it's losing mass at an extreme rate never ...

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