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For decades, astronomers have been watching WOH G64, an enormous heavyweight star in the Large Magellanic Cloud, a galaxy ...

Astronomers observed a heart-shaped gas and dust cloud around red giant Mira A before Valentine’s Day, using data from ESO’s Very Large Telescope and ALMA in Chile.

Astronomers may have solved the mystery of how some of the brightest and hottest stars in the cosmos are born. The team, led by researchers at the Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias (IAC), found ...

One of the brightest stars in the Andromeda galaxy quietly collapsed into a black hole without any of the fanfare of a spectacular supernova. What makes this startling discovery even more remarkable ...

Astronomers are used to dramatic endings. When a massive star dies, it usually explodes ...

Betelgeuse is one of the best-known stars in the night sky, as well as the easiest to find. New examinations of this behemoth star suggest it is both smaller — and closer — than astronomers believed.

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Researchers of the University of Granada have conducted the most complete worldwide analysis of the chemical composition and evolutionary state of a spectral type R carbon star The presence of carbon ...

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A Chalmers-led team of astronomers has for the first time observed details on the surface of an aging star with the same mass as the Sun. Alma’s images show that the star is a giant, its diameter ...