Tag: stars

The James Webb Space Telescope has spotted six potentially rogue worlds – objects with planet-like mass but not bound to ...

A long-standing “conspiracy” in astronomy – that stars and dark matter interact in inexplicable ways – has been debunked by ...

Adding or removing neutrons from an atomic nucleus causes changes in the size of the nucleus. This in turn causes ...

Scientists working with the powerful telescopes at Georgia State's Center for High Angular Resolution Astronomy (CHARA) have conducted a study ...

Astronomers have long sought to understand the beginnings of the universe, and thanks to the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST), ...

“Hidden” stars, including a new type of elderly giant nicknamed “old smoker”, have been spotted for the first time by ...

For many years, most astrophysical models assumed that planets beyond our solar system, called exoplanets, were heated to similar depths ...

Astronomers have discovered a direct link between the explosive deaths of massive stars and the formation of the most compact ...

In the chaotic environment of open star clusters, strong gravitational interactions between bodies can throw individual stars well outside the ...

Once upon a time in cosmic times, scientists assumed that stars applied an eternal magnetic brake, causing their rotation to ...