Our sun and a host of “solar twins” may have migrated away from the core of the Milky Way galaxy together long ago, potentially making the solar system more hospitable to life.
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A new image captured by the Very Large Telescope reveals stars and gas orbiting the “invisible giant” at the heart of our galaxy.
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For the first time, a young, Sun-like star has been caught red-handed blowing bubbles in the galaxy, by astronomers using NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory. The bubble – called an “astrosphere” – completely surrounds the juvenile star in this image released on Feb. 23, 2026. Winds from the star’s surface are blowing up the bubble and […]
“TIC 120362137 is currently the most compact known 3+1-type quadruple star system.”
There’s a whole slew of objects that astronomers aren’t sure whether to classify as “failed stars” or “overgrown planets.”
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One of our universe’s biggest stars has dramatically turned into a rare, yellow ‘hypergiant’ star, and astronomers aren’t sure when it will go supernova.
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The observations offer a rare glimpse into our solar system’s early history.
Two aging stars in the binary system AFGL 4106 sculpt a glowing, egg-shaped nebula as they approach the end of their lives.
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For the first time, a much younger version of the Sun has been caught red-handed blowing bubbles in the galaxy, by astronomers using NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory. The bubble – called an “astrosphere” – completely surrounds the juvenile star. Winds from the star’s surface are blowing up the bubble and filling it with hot gas […]
Forty million years ago, a star in a nearby galaxy exploded, spewing material across space and generating a brilliant beacon of light. That light traveled across the cosmos, reaching Earth June 29, 2025, where it was detected by the All-Sky Automated Survey for Supernovae. Astronomers immediately turned their resources to this new supernova, designated 2025pht, […]