The “Seven Sisters” of the Pleiades are part of a much larger complex that can help reveal our galaxy’s deep history ...

98.5% of the Sun is made up of two light chemical elements, hydrogen and helium, while the remaining 1.5% consists of other heavier elements such as carbon, oxygen, and iron. The abundance of these ...

The study of stellar astrophysics and galactic structure investigates the life cycles of stars and the organisation of galaxies. At its core, the field explores how stellar evolution, from the ...

Neutron stars explained through stellar remnants and collapsed stars, revealing extreme density, gravity, magnetism, and ...

Readings done by a Canadian-Austrian team present a puzzle for astronomers. Expected surface phenomena, which provide information about stellar structures, could not be evidenced from readings ...

In a galaxy seven billion light-years from Earth, at a time when our Sun was just being born, several thousand stars died in massive explosions that blasted giant “superbubbles” into the surrounding ...

Learn how new high-resolution images of two nova eruptions offer fresh insight into how these stellar explosions release material and generate shock waves. For the first time, astronomers have caught ...

98.5% of the Sun is made up of two light chemical elements, hydrogen and helium, while the remaining 1.5% consists of other heavier elements such as carbon, oxygen, and iron. The abundance of these ...

Distribution of very dense groups of stars in the Milky Way, called globular clusters, superimposed on a map of the Milky Way compiled from data obtained with the Gaia Space Observatory. Each dot ...