For decades, astronomers have searched the skies for a missing population of doomed stars — the massive red supergiants that theory predicts should end their lives in powerful stellar explosions, but ...
What can an exploding star in a distant galaxy teach scientists about red supergiants? This is what a recent study published in The Astrophysical Journal Letters hopes to address as a team of ...
The main image at left shows a combined Webb and Hubble view of spiral galaxy NGC 1637, with the region of interest in the top right. The remaining three panels show a detailed view of a red ...
The main image at left shows a combined Webb and Hubble view of spiral galaxy NGC 1637, with the region of interest in the top right. The remaining three panels show a detailed view of a red ...
PHOENIX — Like a motorboat doing doughnuts in a lake, Betelgeuse’s companion star leaves a wake in the giant star’s ...
Astronomers say they've captured the clearest look yet of a star on the brink of supernova. An international team used NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope to backtrack and find the original star that ...
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Betelgeuse on the brink – the red supergiant that could explode any moment
Explore the colossal red supergiant Betelgeuse in Orion and discover why astronomers are riveted by its unpredictable ...
Red supergiant DFK 52 and its surroundings as seen by ALMA. The vast, complex bubble blown by this extreme star is about 1.4 light years across, thousands of times wider than our Solar System. ALMA ...
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