White dwarfs are the dense cores left behind when stars exhaust their fuel and collapse. They are Earth-sized stellar embers weighing typically half as...
Using two instruments onboard the NASA/ESA/CSA James Webb Space Telescope, astronomers have captured new high-resolution images of the planetary nebula...
Using the speckle imager ‘Alopeke on the Gemini North telescope, one half of NSF’s International Gemini Observatory, astronomers have captured direct...
This binary system contains a rapidly spinning millisecond pulsar called PSR J1928+1815 and its helium star companion.
An AI impression of a compact binary...
The newly-discovered planet orbits at an angle of 90 degrees around 2MASS J15104786-2818174 (hereafter 2M1510), an eclipsing binary composed of two equal-mass...
Astrophysicists have found that a recently-discovered transient radio source, ILT J110160.52+552119.62, whose roughly minute-long pulses arrive with a...
Ultrahigh energy cosmic rays are the highest-energy particles in the Universe, whose energies are more than a million times what can be achieved by humans.
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Wolf-Rayet 140 (also known as WR 140 or HD 193793) is a system of two massive stars located some 5,000 light-years away in the constellation of Cygnus....
Using data from ESO’s Very Large Telescope (VLT) and Keck telescope, astronomers have discovered a binary star system in the S star cluster close to...
A neutron star in the X-ray binary system 4U 1820-30 spins 716 times per second, making it one of the fastest-spinning objects ever observed, according...
Betelgeuse, also known as Alpha Orionis or Alpha Ori, is the second-closest red supergiant to Earth. From November 2019 to March 2020, this star experienced...
Astronomers using the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope have made a unique timelapse of R Aquarii’s dynamic behavior from observations spanning from 2014...
TIC 290061484 contains a pair of stars orbiting each other every 1.8 days, and a third star that circles the pair in just 25 days. The discovery smashes...
Cygnus X-3, an X-ray binary system located some 7,400 parsecs (24,136 light-years) in the constellation of Cygnus, represents a class of ultra-luminous...
RCW 7 is located approximately 5,300 light-years away from Earth in the constellation of Puppis.
This Hubble image shows the nebula RCW 7. Image credit:...
Astronomers using the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) and the Mid-Infrared Instrument (MIRI) on the NASA/ESA/CSA James Webb Space Telescope...
Using the Gemini High-resolution Optical SpecTrograph (GHOST), which is attached to the 8.1-m Gemini South telescope at Cerro Pachón, Chile, astronomers...
Using data from ESA’s Gaia mission, astronomers have discovered a nearby binary system composed of a giant star orbiting a dormant black hole of of stellar...
