SPACE: A Star is Born
Astrophysicists have developed the first high-resolution 3D model of a gas cloud coalescing to form a star — and it’s mind-blowing. The “Starforge” model (which stands for “star formation in … Read more
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SPACE: Astronomers Watch Black Hole Turn Star Into Spaghetti
A black hole in a galaxy not far from Earth gobbled up a star like it was a big, exploding noodle, and astronomers got a front-row seat to the action. … Read more
SPACE: Why A Star is Winking at Us
Once or twice a day, a strange object in the Milky Way blinks at us. Now, astronomers think they know why. The object is called NGTS-7, and to most telescopes … Read more
SPACE: Star Births Its Own Twin – Live Science
A close-up look at the birth of a star has revealed a surprise: Not one new stellar body, but two. In 2017, scientists using a new array of radio telescopes … Read more
SPACE: Scientists Search for Our Mother Sun
Image Credit: NAOJ Billions of years ago, a huge star blasted open and spewed its guts into space. At that energetic moment, the so-called core-collapse supernova formed a debris cloud … Read more
SPACE: Most Distant Star Ever Seen – 9 Billion Light-Years Away
Astronomers have observed a star that’s so far away, its light took 9 billion years to reach us here on Earth — about 4.5 billion years before our solar system … Read more
Science: We Might Get to See a Supernova!
It could be one of the biggest astronomical events in years ― a star explosion so intense it could literally change the night sky. Astronomers are predicting that binary star … Read more