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Stellar Fireworks: Hubble Revisits a Strange Star’s 40-Year Nova Mystery
SciTechDaily· 1 day agoOne of the strangest of these events happened in 1975, when a nova called HM Sagittae grew 250 times...
JWST Spots Asteroid Collision In Another Star System
IFLScience· 4 days agoTwenty years ago, astronomers used the Spitzer telescope to study Beta Pictoris, a star 63 light-years away. Researchers back then saw a significant...
James Webb Space Telescope spots asteroid collision in neighboring star system
SPACE.com· 3 days agoThe James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) has observed evidence pointing to asteroids colliding in a...
Amateur astronomers confirm 'warm Jupiter' exoplanet
Astronomy Magazine· 7 days agoNASA’s TESS satellite has identified a treasure trove of potential exoplanets, but those initial detections require detailed follow-ups to confirm. Now a...
Massive 'El Gordo' galaxy cluster suggests dark matter smashes into itself
Space via Yahoo News· 7 days agoA view of space with blue and pink hazes overlaying lots of stars and galaxies. Strange behavior in...
Coming in Hot — NASA's Chandra Checks Habitability of Exoplanets - NASA
NASA· 2 days agoThis graphic shows a three-dimensional map of stars near the Sun. These stars are close enough that...
Scientists find slowest spinning 'radio neutron star' — it breaks all the dead-star rules
Space via Yahoo News· 7 days agoA half purple half blue glowing sphere. Astronomers have discovered the slowest spinning radio...
NASA’s Webb Reveals Long-Studied Star Is Actually Twins - NASA
NASA· 15 hours agoScientists recently got a big surprise from NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope when they turned the...
Voyager 1 is back to life in interstellar space, but for how long?
Washington Post· 24 hours agoNASA engineers have succeeded in breathing new life into Voyager 1, the spacecraft launched in 1977...
A 'new star' could appear in the sky any night now. Here's how to see the Blaze Star ignite
Space via Yahoo News· 4 days agoT Coronae Borealis will erupt with a magnificent explosion sometime between now and September,...