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DS1, collapsed into a black hole without exploding, revealing how stars die in silent “failed supernova” events.

The Milky Way looks serene from our vantage point, a hazy river of light arcing across the night sky. Yet the stars that make up that glow are quietly telling a more dramatic story, one in which our ...

Astronomers may finally understand why planets orbiting two suns, the real-world equivalents of the "Star Wars" planet ...

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The Milky Way is our home galaxy with a disc of stars that spans more than 100,000 light-years. While the Milky Way is generally always visible from Earth, certain times of year are better for ...

In 2014, a NASA telescope observed that the infrared light emitted by a massive star in the Andromeda galaxy gradually grew brighter. The star glowed more intensely with infrared light for around ...

A shimmering blue dwarf galaxy called Markarian 178 glows just 13 million light-years away, packed with hot young stars and rare stellar heavyweights. Credit: ESA/Hubble & NASA, F. Annibali, S. Hong A ...

An illustration of one of the oldest stars ever found in our solar neighborhood. The aging star, cataloged as HD140283, lies 190.1 light-years from Earth. The oldest known naked eye star in our Milky ...

The most powerful telescope to be launched into space has made history by detecting a record number of new stars in a distant galaxy. NASA's James Webb Space Telescope, history's largest and most ...

The vast majority of stars form and reside within galaxies due to the presence of cold, dense molecular gas clouds conducive to star formation. True intergalactic space, characterized by low-density ...