When you peer into the night sky, much of what you see is plasma, a…
STARS
It’s one of the greatest and longest-running mysteries surrounding, quite literally, our sun–why is its…
Chemical traces in the atmospheres of stars are being used to uncover new information about…
Star formation within interstellar clouds of gas and dust, so-called molecular clouds, proceeds very…
Brown dwarfs fill the “gap” between stars and the much smaller planets – two very…
This star-studded image shows us a portion of Messier 11, an open star cluster in…
ESO’s Very Large Telescope (VLT) has caught a glimpse of an ethereal nebula hidden away…
Stars over eight times more massive than the Sun end their lives in supernovae explosions.…
Scientists looking for signs of life beyond our solar system face major challenges, one of…
Towards the end of their lives some 95% of stars evolve into red giants which…
