Stars
Astronomers See an Enormous Coronal Mass Ejection… On Another Star!
For the first time ever, astronomers have witnessed a coronal mass ejection (CME) on a star other than our very…
Astronomers are Finding Binary Pairs of Stars Thrown out of Galaxies Together
A rogue star is one that has escaped the gravitational pull of its home galaxy. These stars drift through intergalactic…
Bizarre Star Could be the Result of Two White Dwarfs Merging Together
Stars live and die on epic time scales. Tens of millions of years, hundreds of millions of years, even billions…
Can You Spot a Planetary Nebula from a Few Blurry Pixels? Astronomers Can – Here’s How
A planetary nebula is one of the most beautiful objects in the universe. Formed from the decaying remnants of a…
Small, Tough Planets can Survive the Death of Their Star
Sad fact of the Universe is that all stars will die, eventually. And when they do, what happens to their…
Some of Earth’s Gold Came From Two Neutron Stars That Collided Billions of Years Ago
A new study has shown that a good deal of Earth's heaviest elements may have come from a nearby neutron…
What Will the James Webb Space Telescope See? A Whole Bunch of Dust, That’s What
When it comes to the first galaxies, the James Webb Space Telescope will attempt to understand the formation of those…
Voyager and Pioneer’s Grand Tour of the Milky Way
A new study takes a look at where the Voyager and Pioneer probes might one day venture to as they…
This Star has been Kicked Out of the Milky Way. It Knows What It Did.
Every once in a while, the Milky Way ejects a star. The evicted star is typically ejected from the chaotic…
Massive Photons Could Explain Dark Matter, But Don’t
I’ll be the first to admit that we don’t understand dark matter. We do know for sure that something funny…