Tag Archive for 'Massive star'

This colorized image, taken by the CaSSIS instrument aboard ESA’s Trace Gas Orbiter on October 3, 2025, shows the interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS. Image credit: ESA / TGO / CaSSIS.

3I/ATLAS-Like Interstellar Objects Could Kick Start Planet Formation around High-Mass Stars

Oct 10, 2025 by News Staff

The discovery of 1I/Oumuamua, 2I/Borisov and 3I/ATLAS showed that significant numbers of interstellar objects populate interstellar space. Their omnipresence...

This Webb image shows Pismis 24, a young star cluster some 5,500 light-years in the constellation of Scorpius. Image credit: NASA / ESA / CSA / STScI / A. Pagan, STScI.

Webb Spots Cluster of Young Massive Stars in Lobster Nebula

Sep 4, 2025 by News Staff

Astronomers using the NASA/ESA/CSA James Webb Space Telescope have taken a beautiful new image of the star cluster Pismis 24, which resides in the core...

An infrared Webb image of the galaxy NGC 4141 containing the fast radio burst FRB 20250316A. Image credit: NASA / ESA / CSA / CfA / Blanchard et al. / P. Edmonds.

Astronomers Discover One of Brightest Fast Radio Bursts Ever Detected

Aug 22, 2025 by News Staff

Labeled FRB 20250316A and nicknamed RBFLOAT (Radio Brightest FLash Of All Time), the event occurred in the outer regions of the nearby spiral galaxy NGC...

These ALMA images show rich disk structures around stars in Sigma Orionis. Image credit: ALMA / ESO / JAO / NAOJ / NRAO / Huang et al.

Planets Can Form Even in Harsh Stellar Environments, New ALMA Observations Suggest

Nov 19, 2024 by News Staff

Using the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA), astronomers have captured high-resolution images of eight protoplanetary disks in Sigma...

This image, taken with ESO’s VLT Survey Telescope, shows the beautiful nebula NGC 6164/6165. The nebula is a cloud of gas and dust surrounding a pair of stars called HD 148937. Image credit: ESO / VPHAS+ Team / CASU.

Astronomers Observe Result of Violent Stellar Merger

Apr 11, 2024 by News Staff

Most stellar magnetic fields — including the Sun’s — are produced by a dynamo that is generated in interior layers undergoing convection....