Using archival data from NASA’s NEOWISE mission along with data from other space and ground-based observatories, astronomers identified the clearest observational record yet of a massive star fading ...
"The most likely explanation for the dimming is a brown dwarf – an object heavier than a planet but lighter than a star – ...
Astronomers watching the Andromeda Galaxy have now seen something they had only theorized before: a massive star that simply vanished, apparently collapsing straight into a black hole instead of ...
The Hubble Space Telescope has captured an amazing view of galaxies LEDA 48062 and UGC 8603. Credit: ESA/Hubble & NASA, R.
An international team of astronomers has conducted photometric and spectroscopic observations of a recently discovered ...
A dazzling new Hubble image peels back the layers of the mysterious Egg Nebula, a rare and fleeting phase in a Sun-like ...
After looking for evidence of such an event for decades astronomers discovered they had the images but hadn’t noticed at the time.
A massive star in the nearby Andromeda galaxy has simply disappeared. Some astronomers believe that it's collapsed in on ...