Supernovae are powerful stellar explosions marking the death of stars. Type I supernovae lack hydrogen; Type II supernovae show hydrogen. Type Ia supernovae originate from exploding white dwarfs; Type ...

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Using NASA's Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS), an international team of astronomers have detected a new exoplanet ...

When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. Astronomers have finally found something they have spent decades searching for: a teardrop-shaped ...

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When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. Are two different types of stars actually the same thing? Recent research shows that two kinds of ...

Stars across the Hertzsprung–Russell diagram are known to emit X-rays, with only a few exceptions. In main-sequence solar-type and low-mass stars, the X-rays arise from a magnetically confined plasma ...

Astronomers have discovered a new type of binary star, that was missing for decades, which represents a "missing link" in the evolution of so-called extremely low mass (ELM) white dwarfs. When 97 ...