Astronomers have discovered a new kind of star, and with it, a new clue to an old mystery: how magnetars form. The discovery is related to a peculiar star in a binary system some 3,000 light-years ...
Observations and stellar evolution models of a hot, helium-rich Wolf-Rayet star indicate that it will produce a magnetar when it explodes as a supernova, according to a new study. The findings provide ...
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Why do Wolf Rayet stars produce tiny dust particles? New observations of WR 112 offer clues
New ALMA and JWST observations reveal why Wolf–Rayet star WR 112 produces tiny dust grains, showing a bimodal grain ...
Apep is a rare stellar system containing a pair of doomed Wolf-Rayet stars, orbiting each other 8,000 light years from Earth. A new study reveals this system could erupt as the first gamma ray burst ...
Infrared images from the James Webb Space Telescope combine three wavelengths of light to reveal the dusty shells around each Wolf-Rayet (WR) star. Cosmic dust does far more than float through space.
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