Astronomy

Binary Systems Could Create Most Nebulae

Image credit: Hubble New research from the National Optical Astronomy Observatory may help to explain the formation and shape of…

21 years ago

New Method for Finding Exploding White Dwarf Stars

Image credit: SDSS Researchers at the University of Washington have developed a new method for studying unusual astronomical pairings: pre-cataclysmic…

21 years ago

String of Galaxies Puzzles Astronomers

Image credit: NASA Wide-field observations of the early Universe have turned up a strange string of galaxies 300 million light-years…

21 years ago

Stars of All Ages Have Comets and Planets

Image credit: Harvard CfA Astronomers from the Harvard Center for Astrophysics studied Comet Kudo-Fujikawa as it swept past the Sun…

21 years ago

Double Pulsar System Found

Image credit: RAS An international team of astronomers have discovered a double pulsar system - the first ever seen. The…

21 years ago

Astronomers See a Magnetar Form

Image credit: NASA A team of astronomers were lucky enough to observe the rare event of a neutron star turning…

21 years ago

Supernova’s Companion Star Found

Image credit: ESA When the second brightest supernova seen in modern times, SN 1993J, blew up several years ago, it…

21 years ago

Lifeless Suns in the Early Universe

Image credit: Harvard CfA New calculations by a pair of Harvard astronomers predict that the first "Sun-like" stars in the…

21 years ago

Biggest Stars Often Have Companions

Image credit: Hubble New research from the Hubble Space Telescope indicates that the majority of large dying Wolf-Rayat stars have…

21 years ago

Most Luminous Star Discovered

Image credit: University of Florida A team of astronomers from the University of Florida have found what could be the…

21 years ago