With the gap between them very gradually narrowing as the binary system loses energy, the fact that they are so massive and so close ensures their demise over a large timescale.
When I was a kid, I was fascinated by the Powers of 10 video, which came out in the 1970s. Perhaps you remember it, with the ...
Astronomers have identified two massive white dwarf stars in a binary system within the Milky Way, poised for a rare ...
A bright star within our Milky Way galaxy photobombed a beautiful new image of a distant galaxy with "patchy" spiral arms.
When their end comes, the stars will explode in a blast making them around 200,000 times brighter than Jupiter does now.
If it exploded today, this future supernova might be close enough to us to pose a threat, but the Sun will have burned out before it happens.
Astronomers using the James Webb Space Telescope have discovered the most distant quiescent galaxy ever seen – one that had ...
The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) has teamed up with the MeerKAT radio telescope array to explore how magnetic fields ...
According to new simulations, many, even most, planets get ejected from their star early in their history Star Trek ...
Webb first observed the region called Sagittarius C in 2023. Now researchers are now using those observations to study star formation in the wider area around the center of the Milky Way, known as the ...
An international research team led by Dr. Zhang Suinan from the Shanghai Astronomical Observatory of the Chinese Academy of ...
After 11 years mapping the Milky Way, the European Space Agency's Gaia space telescope has retired. Scientists hailed it as ...