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 ...

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Astronomers have used a new type of extreme supernova in which a massive star was stripped right "down to the bone" to better ...

A thin gap has been discovered on the Hertzsprung-Russell Diagram (HRD). This is the most fundamental of all maps in stellar astronomy, a finding that provides new information about the interior ...

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Some planets may be soot-rich rather than water-based. Atmosphere studies will be key to understanding their true nature. Astronomers generally consider water worlds to be among the most common types ...

WASHINGTON (Reuters) -The explosion of a star, called a supernova, is an immensely violent event. It usually involves a star more than eight times the mass of our sun that exhausts its nuclear fuel ...