Looking for a sky event this week? Check out our full Sky This Week column. March 9: Callisto's disappearing act The Moon passes 0.7° south of the star Antares in the constellation Scorpius at 8 A.M.
Their results were published in the journal Astronomy and Astrophysics. Together, the observations and simulations show that dust grains alone cannot explain how winds escape from oxygen-rich red ...
You live in a galaxy packed with black holes that never announce themselves. They do not blaze in X-rays or glow with stolen gas. They hide. Astronomers find them by watching the stars that dance ...
A distant red giant star is rippling with seismic vibrations, and for the first time, a NASA spacecraft has translated those subtle pulses into a kind of cosmic song directed at a hidden black hole ...
New high-resolution simulations reveal that stellar rotation plays a crucial role in transporting material inside red giant stars.
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