A spectacular view of an exploding star was yesterday released on a new web site launched to mark the Hubble Space Telescope's tenth year in orbit. The multi-coloured fireball, 6500 light years from ...
An exploding star - made of two stars that orbit each other 3,000 light years away - will be visible over the UK, having last lit up the skies in 1946. Astronomers are keenly awaiting the arrival of ...
Stars like the Sun are remarkably constant. They vary in brightness by only 0.1% over years and decades, thanks to the fusion of hydrogen into helium that powers them. This process will keep the Sun ...
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Astronomers at the University of Warwick have found a new exploding star in the sky but they said they would not have been able to do it without a team of amateur citizen scientists alerting them to ...
Rare exploding stars billions of times brighter than our sun have overturned existing theories on how stars die, according to astronomers at Queen's University Belfast. The scientists have used some ...
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