What can an exploding star in a distant galaxy teach scientists about red supergiants? This is what a recent study published in The Astrophysical Journal Letters hopes to address as a team of ...
The James Webb Space Telescope has uncovered a massive red supergiant star just before it exploded, finally solving a cosmic mystery. Hidden beneath layers of dust, the doomed star revealed itself ...
A Northwestern University-led team of astronomers has captured the most detailed glimpse yet of a doomed star before it exploded. Using NASA's James Webb Space Telescope (JWST), the international team ...
Astronomers have discovered a vast and expanding bubble of gas and dust surrounding a red supergiant star—the largest structure of its kind ever seen in the Milky Way. The bubble, which contains as ...
The half-lit moon will appear close to Antares in the constellation Scorpius later this week. The half-lit moon will appear to skip past the red star Antares in the constellation Scorpius on the ...
Astronomers found the Milky Way's largest gas-and-dust bubble, shed by a red supergiant 4000 years ago, raising questions about how the star survived. (Nanowerk News) Astronomers from Chalmers ...