San Francisco, April 10, 2024 The American Association of Variable Star Observers (AAVSO) announced on Thursday, June 29, 2023, that a binary star system called T Coronae Borealis (T CrB) …
The galaxy NGC 4383 is evolving strangely. Gas flows from its core at speeds exceeding 200 km/s. This mysterious eruption of gas has a unique cause: star formation. Image source: …
In the artist’s rendering, a red giant star and a white dwarf star orbit each other. Material ejected from the red giant star collects and heats up in the white …
Nature, in her infinite creativity, provides natural astronomical lenses that allow us to see objects beyond the normal range of our telescopes. They’re called gravitational lenses, and a few years …
Numerical simulation of the ejecta produced by two merging neutron stars. Red refers to ejected material with a high proportion of neutrons, which generally appears redder than blue material with …