The star, called DFK 52, is a member of a cluster of similar red supergiants, but it's losing mass at an extreme rate never ...

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

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

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 ...

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.