News

An international team reported Wednesday that this strange celestial object is perhaps a star, pair of stars or something ...
By combining observations from NASA’s powerful Chandra X-ray Observatory and Australia’s ASKAP radio telescope on Wajarri Country, astronomers zeroed in on an object named ASKAP J1832−0911 (or simply ...
Supernova remnants could briefly become the most extreme particle accelerators in the cosmos, surpassing even the Large ...
You might get the chance to see a rare cosmic event in just a few weeks. Astronomers anticipate that a nearby exploding star could appear in the night skies across the Northern Hemisphere.
The stars in a binary can vary widely in mass, size, and brightness, and their interactions often shape their evolution in ...
Originally predicted to go nova in 2024, buzz about binary star system T Coronae Borealis was rekindled by NASA in early May ...
It stretches what’s physically possible.” After spotting the exploding star, astronomers went back in Hubble’s catalog and found an image of it a couple of years prior to its detonation.
T Coronae Borealis has an outburst every 79 to 80 years, according to NASA. The once-in-a-lifetime explosion of T Coronae Borealis, also known as the "Blaze Star," is still pending -- but the ...
The Blaze Star is located in the Northern Crown, a horseshoe-shaped curve of stars west of the Hercules constellation, according to NASA. Once the explosion occurs, viewers can look for it between ...