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A red supergiant star transitions into a type II supernova in this animation. Credit: W. M. Keck Observatory/Adam Makarenko | ...
Sky gazers can look forward to the Strawberry Moon in June 2025. This full moon, named by Native American tribes, signals the ...
Betelgeuse is one of the most well-known stars in the night sky. Located about 640 light years from Earth in the ...
It's called Alicella gigantea, and it's the largest known species of amphipod, a shrimp-like species that is usually less ...
Venus continues to be the brilliant “Morning Star” in the East before dawn, albeit dimming just a bit as it moves away from ...
Venus dominates the dawn sky. She reaches greatest western elongation, 46 degrees ahead of the rising sun, on June 1, and ...
Named after the red supergiant star blazing ferociously in the constellation of Orion, some 600 light years from our solar system, Betelgeuse is an outcast from the hilariously bureaucratic ...
Red supergiant Antares, having just passed opposition on May 30, begins June low in the southeast at dusk. The morning ...
We perform hydrodynamical simulations of red supergiants to model the ejection of CSM caused by wave heating during late-stage nuclear burning. Even a small amount of deposited energy (10(46)-10(47) ...
Astronomically speaking, June is laid back. No meteor showers of note, no eclipses and no bright comets are expected. But ...