The star, situated in a galaxy orbiting our own tens of thousands of light-years away, may be on the verge of a spectacular ...

An astrophysicist and his team have made history by capturing the first-ever close-up image of a star in another galaxy.

Ohnaka and his team found an egg-shaped shell of dust and gas surrounding WOH G64 - a dying star about 160,000 light-years ...

Astronomers have been able to look at the sun and a handful of other stars in the Milky Way up close, thanks to modern advances in telescopes. But getting a detailed view of a star outside the galaxy ...

Astronomers capture the first detailed image of WOH G64, a star 2,000 times bigger than the Sun, as it nears its supernova ...

Gravitational waves—Disturbances or ripples in the fabric of space produced by violent events in the cosmos ... A large interstellar cloud of gas and dust giving birth to stars in the ...

and regulating the rate of star formation. In COSMOS-AzTEC-1, the gas clouds are extremely unstable, and the outward pressure is significantly weaker than the gravity, which prevents any of the ...

A neutron star, also called a dead star, consists of the remnant of a large, massive star that has ... densest objects that can be observed in the cosmos. The neutron star is only 12 km across ...