A study shows that the most massive stars in the last stages of their lives are those which contaminate the interstellar medium with new chemical elements, giving rise to successive generations of ...

Life in the universe could depend on the vicissitudes of two wildly different types of stars. A team of astronomers recently used the venerable Hubble Space Telescope to study the light of 495 stars — ...

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Two new images from the Gemini Observatory released today (Monday June 5th 2006) at the American Astronomical Society meeting in Calgary, Canada, show a pair of beautiful nebulae that were created by ...

What can binary stars comprised of two different types of stars teach astronomers about stellar evolution? This is what a recent study published in The Astrophysical Journal hopes to address as a team ...

In a recent astronomical revelation, scientists have detected a galactic-scale “heartbeat” rhythm pulsating within stars billions of light-years away from Earth. This entrancing cosmic rhythm offers a ...

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In the vast tapestry of the cosmos, stars have long been subjects of intrigue and mystery. Recently, theorists have proposed that some stars exhibit pulsations akin to life-like rhythms, challenging ...