Runaway star ejected from the centre of the Milky Way at incredible speed
Astronomers have identified a runaway star travelling at an incredible 6 million kilometres per hour, ejected by the supermassive black ...
Tag: stars
Some ancient Globular Clusters may not be ancient at all
New research has provided some surprising answers regarding the origins of globular clusters the oldest visible objects in the Universe — some ...
Older stars move faster than younger ones, research shows
The galaxy's elderly unexpectedly move faster than stellar younglings.
NASA finds new exoplanet that orbits three different suns
The planet is so close to its host star that it only has a 5.36 day-long orbit. At this distance, ...
Two billion years ago, Andromeda ‘ate’ a sister-galaxy of the Milky Way
The findings could topple our current understanding of how galaxies merge.
The Universe’s densest stars have a maximum mass limit, researchers find
Stopping just shy of a black hole's density, neutron stars play a dangerous game.
How to find constellations: a starter’s guide
You'll never know what's written in the stars for you if you can't read them.
Astronomers discover the first white dwarf pulsar in history, ending half a century of searching
It's small but it will rip you apart using only magnetism.
Astronomers may have discovered a new cosmic phenomena — and we don’t really know what it is
What we do know is that it blasts enormously powerful X-rays into the void.
Scientists may have seen a black hole being born for the first time ever
Awww, it has your....mass.
New class of star-stripped super-Earths discovered
Astrophysicists have discovered a new class of exoplanets whose atmospheres and volatile elements have been blown away by the star ...
Gold doesn’t fall out of the sky – but it’s created in the heavens
Research based on recent observations of a nearby gamma-ray burst, GRB 130603B, help explain how gold, silver and other heavy ...
A crime in the sky: galaxies die by strangulation
There are two types of galaxies: 'alive' and 'dead' ones. Those galaxies that are still alive are called so because ...
Capturing music from the stars
Musica Universalis or Music of the Spheres is an philosophical concept which portrays the proportions in the movement of the ...
Youngest ‘baby star’ ever discovered
Astronomers have come across something truly amazing. Observations have surprised a protostar - a star in the making - in ...
Seeing stars during daytime – is it possible?
The short answer is, no. Not with the naked eye at least, but if you use a highly potent set ...
Most powerful stars are actually vampire binary systems. The weaker feeds on the stronger
A new research has found that the massively powerful O-type stars, which can be up to 90 times more powerful ...
Stars spew out organic matter into space – life may have its origin in star dust
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How many planets are in the Milky Way? Over 50 billion
Yes, you've read that right. There are over 50 billion planets in our galaxy alone, according to the Kepler telescope, ...
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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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