As per NASA, the rare sight of a Wolf-Rayet star – among the most luminous, most massive, and most briefly detectable stars ...

Astronomers await a rare cosmic event as T Coronae Borealis, the Blaze Star, prepares to erupt in a thermonuclear explosion, making it briefly visible in the night sky.

Great white sharks are already massive, but the size of the biggest one ever recorded is mind-blowing! This ocean giant ...

The red and blue is a result of the gases from the explosion, while the star has turned into a small, bluish body called a white dwarf (represented by the symbol PK205+14.1 in the image below).

Gravity then causes them to collapse and blow off their outer layers in a "red giant" stage, eventually leaving behind a compact core roughly the diameter of Earth — the white dwarf. This one ...

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When we first began searching for planets around other stars, one of the surprising discoveries was that there are planets orbiting white dwarfs. The first exoplanets we ever discovered were white ...

A recurrent nova is made up of a white dwarf star and a larger star, usually a red giant. The white dwarf’s gravity pulls material from the nearby, larger star. “The white dwarf is ...

For those eager to witness this rare phenomenon, the constellation Corona Borealis is well-positioned for observation from ...