Stellar Evolution
Massive Stars Start Life Big… Really BIG!
[/caption] It might be hard to believe, but massive stars are larger in their infant stage than they are when…
Staking Out A Vampire Star
[/caption] How do you peer into the dark heart of a vampire star? Try combining four telescopes! At ESO’s Paranal…
Incredible Spinning Star Rotates At A Million Miles Per Hour!
[/caption] Located in the Large Magellanic Cloud, a star named VFTS 102 is spinning its heart out... Literally. Rotating at…
NSV 11749 – Born Again and Grown Old
[/caption] In 1996, a Japanese amateur astronomer discovered a new star in the constellation Sagittarius. Dubbed V4334 Sgr, astronomers initially…
Cygnus X – A Cosmic-ray Cocoon
[/caption] Situated about 4,500 light-years away in the constellation of Cygnus is a veritable star factory called Cygnus X... one…
An Exoplanet’s Auroral Engine
Located 880 light-years away, a massive gas giant called CoRoT-2b orbits its star at a mere 2 million miles –…
NGC 1846 – Hubble Reveals Peculiar Life And Death Of A Stellar Population
[/caption] About 160,000 light years away in the direction of southern constellation Doradus, sits a globular cluster. It's not a…
SOFIA Reveals Star-Forming Region W40
[/caption] Around 1957 light years away, a dense molecular cloud resides beside an OB star cluster locked in a massive…
Are Pulsars Giant Permanent Magnets?
[/caption] Some of the most bizarre phenomena in the universe are neutron stars. Very few things in our universe can…
The Way Cool Clouds Of The Carina Nebula
[/caption] It's beautiful.... But it's cold. By utilizing the submillimetre-wavelength of light, the 12 meter APEX telescope has imaged the…