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Two aging stars in the binary system AFGL 4106 sculpt a glowing, egg-shaped nebula as they approach the end of their lives.

One of our universe's biggest stars has dramatically turned into a rare, yellow 'hypergiant' star, and astronomers aren't sure when it will go supernova.

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By Will Dunham WASHINGTON, Feb 28 (Reuters) - The largest stars in the universe live the life of a rock star - they are born ...

One of the largest known stars in the universe underwent a dramatic transformation in 2014, new research shows, and may be preparing to explode. A study led by Gonzalo Muñoz-Sanchez at the National ...

Get ready for a night under the stars as the Friends of St. Andrews State Park get ready to host their “Park After Dark” stargazing event alongside the Astronomical ...

One of the largest stars known in the Universe has done something strange – and scientists are debating what it means. WOH ...

Gravitational lensing exposed a distant protocluster once seen as a faint smudge, revealing eleven dusty star-forming galaxies through combined ALMA and NSF VLA observations.

Astronomers report the rapid transition of WOH G64 from a red supergiant to a yellow hypergiant, based on photometric and spectroscopic observations published in Nature Astronomy.

The name "Worm Moon" is believed to originate from beetle larvae emerging from thawing tree bark in March. Cloudy and stormy weather in the Louisville area may make it difficult to view the celestial ...

Astronomers have spotted what may be one of the universe’s earliest barred spiral galaxies — a striking cosmic structure forming just 2 billion years after the Big Bang. The galaxy, COSMOS-74706, ...