A groundbreaking study led by astronomers from the Chalmers University of Technology has unveiled an extraordinary phenomenon ...

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 ...

DFK 52, a red supergiant, expelled a huge gas shell 4,000 years ago. ALMA revealed the outburst, which current stellar models ...

Even with the Hubble Space Telescope ’s groundbreaking abilities, the “Cosmic Grapes” galaxy only appeared as a smooth, ...

Astronomers discover a rare “jellyfish” galaxy with the Webb telescope, whose bright trail reveals how stars are born when ...

A recent study led by Dilda Berdikhan, a Ph.D. student from the Xinjiang Astronomical Observatory (XAO) of the Chinese ...

And the mystery of the star’s periodic spikes in brightness now has an answer. The companion orbits Betelgeuse once every five to six years, sweeping through the red supergiant’s outer atmosphere.

This Hubble Space Telescope image shows the colorful globular cluster NGC 2108. The cluster is nestled within the Large Magellanic Cloud, in the constellation of the Swordfish (Dorado). It was disc… ...