The nova eruptions come about when a white dwarf steals too much matter from a close red giant companion.

"With ALMA, we can now see the atmosphere of a dying star with a level of clarity in a similar way to what we do for the sun.

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Within the rubble of an exploded star, astrophysicists have found unexpectedly high amounts of two ingredients essential for ...

Astronomers using the James Webb Space Telescope have captured dramatic helium streams pouring off the super-puff exoplanet ...

Stars form in massive clouds of gas called molecular clouds. As they form, they accrete gas from these clouds, and as the ...

Black holes that were far too large shortly after the Big Bang posed a puzzle for astronomy. Now, stars were discovered that ...

Dürer's 1515 star charts were a game-changer for European courts, proving an obsession with astrology is nothing new ...

Seventy light-years from Earth, a star called Kappa Tucanae A harbors one of astronomy's most perplexing mysteries: dust so ...

Subjects including linguistics, international studies and human-centered design and engineering all halted taking ...

Astronomers have captured images of two stellar explosions—known as novae—within days of their eruption and in unprecedented ...