The Hubble Space Telescope captured imagery of supernova 2018 GV from 2018-2019. It was seen in barred spiral galaxy NGC 2525 ...
Hubble has uncovered a rare ultra-massive white dwarf created in a violent star merger. Once thought to be ordinary, the star ...
A key mystery about Type Ia supernovas is that, in the dominant theory known as D6, a white dwarf would need a companion star in order to explode. This so-called D6 scenario is shorthand for ...
When a star dies in a massive explosion, it leaves behind a supernova remnant - an expanding cloud of gas and dust that tells the story of its violent end. Thanks to Hubble’s breathtaking 4K images, ...
The known universe is full of shockingly huge things. Here are the largest planets, stars, galaxies, and structures we've ...
Earth's wobbly orbit has shifted our view of the stars since the zodiac signs were first created. But that doesn't mean your ...
It's a scene that could evoke popular fantasy stories, with sparkling stars shining above misty mountaintops, but the James Webb Space Telescope image you see above is of a very real part of our ...
Astronomers use simulations to discover how globular clusters form and reveal a new type of star system near the Milky Way.
Einstein’s version of dark energy is known as the cosmological constant. It implies a fixed amount of dark energy in each ...
However, further observations from the Hubble Space Telescope revealed that Pismis 24-1 is actually a triple star system. This system includes one star 66 times the mass of our Sun, alongside a ...