Black holes turn stars into spaghetti, devours them, then burp fire
If there's one thing that black holes do extremely well, it's drawing things to them and destroying them.
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ESA’s Gaia observatory sends back first star chart showing a billion new stars
Seeing is believing.
First stars formed much later than we thought
The European Space Agency's Planck satellite has revealed some information which may force us to rethink the evolution of the ...
Star blast reveals water ‘snowline’ for first time ever
This space snow could help scientists better understand planet formation and evolution.
Origami battery that runs on a few drops of water could revolutionize biosensors
This disposable battery runs on bacteria and folds like an origami ninja star. Sold!
Lonely planet found in a family of stars
NASA astronauts have discovered a lonely planetary-like mass floating on its own, without a solar system. ...
Hubble captures the death of a star, offering a glimpse of our sun’s final days
A spectacular image captured by the Hubble Space Telescope's Wide Field Planetary Camera 2 (WFPC2) gives us a glimpse into ...
3,200-year-old papyrus contains astrophysical information about the Algol star
Many ancient civilizations made astronomical notes, but according to researchers, this is the earliest historical document of naked eye observations ...
Newborn star fires lightsaber: as seen by Hubble
This celestial lightsaber does not lie in a galaxy far, far away, but rather inside our home galaxy.
Scientists find a tiny star with a huge storm — just like Jupiter’s
While the windy and overcast weather of a stormy day isn't surprising on telluric planets, it's not something most of ...
Newly discovered star’s chemistry puzzles researchers
A team of Argentinian astronomers, peering up in the night's sky from the Astronomical Observatory of Córdoba has found a ...
Something is blocking light from a distant star, and one of the possibilities is an alien structure
It's likely not aliens, but it could be - and it's really, really strange.
How to weigh a star: a new mathematical method
A novel mathematical model can weigh the mass of a pulsar - a rapidly rotating magnetized neutran star - using ...
Incredibly active galaxy cluster creates 800 stars every year
The gargantuan cluster is 9.8 billion light years away from us, houses at least 27 galaxies and has a combined ...
Scientists find the sound of stars
A chance discovery has provided experimental evidence that stars may generate sound. While he was examining the interaction of an ...
Supernova flings star out of the Milky Way – it’s the fastest moving star ever
Astronomers have discovered a star racing at a incredible pace of 2.6 million miles an hour (4.2 million kilometers an ...
Most detailed picture EVER of a new planet being born
Some 450 light-years away in the constellation Taurus, a new planet is being born and astronomers using the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array ...
Astronomers find the sun’s first sibling: a star made of the same stuff
A star like our Sun is shown with an orbiting planet in the foreground in this ...
Kepler telescope – Earth size planets number ’17 billion’
Astronomers working on the Kepler telescope believe that every 1 in 6 stars hosts at least an Earth-sized planet in ...
Astronomers capture light from first stars using bright galaxies
I gotta say, sometimes it absolutely baffles me to see the kind of complex studies astrophysicists do, and this is ...
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The largest stars in the Universe (that we’ve found so far)
Here's some of the largest, plumpest ones out there.
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