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Supermassive Black Hole Shreds a Huge Star in Record Flare

A colossal star met an unexpected fate when it drifted too close to a supermassive black hole 10 billion...

Ancient Mystery Of The Maya ‘Star War’ Glyph And Its Connection To Venus

Ellen Lloyd - AncientPages.com - The ancient Maya were highly skilled astronomers who closely observed the sky. They systematically studied...

This Star Will One Day Explode So Bright, You Could See It in the Daytime

V Sagittae’s violent mass transfer hints at an imminent nova—and a future supernova visible from Earth. Binary star systems...

JWST May Have Discovered a New Kind of Star Powered by Dark Matter

Astronomers using the James Webb Space Telescope may have found the universe’s first “dark stars.” Within the first few...

New Class of Ancient Star System Discovered Hiding in Our Galaxy

New simulations suggest globular clusters form in multiple ways and point to a mysterious new type of star system...

This “Ordinary” Spiral Galaxy Explodes With Star Birth and Black Hole Power

NGC 7456 may look like just another spiral galaxy, but it’s full of surprises. From vibrant star-forming regions glowing pink...

Cigar Galaxy Blazes With Star Births at 10x the Milky Way’s Pace

Messier 82 blazes with star-forming power, producing superclusters that outshine ordinary ones. Thanks to Hubble and Webb, we can...

Webb Telescope Spots a “Blob” Near a Star, but Is It a Planet?

JWST placed new limits on planets around Epsilon Eridani and demonstrated an improved technique for spotting faint signals. In science,...

This Tiny Star Hosts a Giant Planet That Breaks the Rules of Astronomy

Astronomers have discovered a giant Saturn-sized planet orbiting TOI-6894, the tiniest known star to host such a world. This...

This Seemingly Normal Star Was Hiding a Violent Past

A seemingly ordinary white dwarf star, located just 130 light-years away, has revealed an extraordinary secret: it is the...

After Decades of Searching, Astronomers Finally Spot Betelgeuse’s Elusive Companion Star

Gemini North telescope in Hawai‘i uncovers hidden companion to Betelgeuse, shedding light on ancient stellar mystery. Using the ‘Alopeke...

This Star Exploded – And Came Back Brighter Than Before

A dazzling new Hubble image reveals the spiral galaxy NGC 1309, nestled 100 million light-years away in the constellation...