How are stars formed? What are they made of? And what happens to them when they die? In this week’s TCTV, astrophysicist Akila Jeeson-Daniel explains the physics behind the balls of gas that light up the…
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A team of international astronomers has developed a more precise way to deduce the ages of stars and to pinpoint when our…
There is a myth that goldfish have a three-second memory, and I sometimes wonder if the same is true about the part of the human mind that deals with science in the news. This week, the international media…
The sun is our nearest star and the source of all our light and heat on Earth but recent reports have highlighted an ongoing steep decline in solar activity. This story is a reminder that our sun is a…
If you live in the southern hemisphere, you now can safely view the aftermath of a nuclear explosion from the comfort of your own backyard. Just last week a new “star”, Nova Centauri 2013, was discovered…
Galaxies located in groups may be running out of gas, according to a new international study led by Swinburne University…
Twinkle, twinkle, little star, how I wonder what you are. If we look up at the sky at night, we see millions of tiny diamond-like stars. These are actually balls of plasma (very hot gas) consisting of…
Being spiral in shape, our Galaxy is already in permanent rotational motion. But astronomers have found that the Milky Way…
Astronomers have found a small star (a pulsar called PSR J1824-2452I) undergoing a radical transformations. The pulsar’s…
The current theory of star formation has a problem: it cannot make big stars. In the standard star-making recipe, stars are formed in the depths of gas clouds made from molecular hydrogen. These clouds…
Space is Big. Really Big. The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy pretty much nailed space with those five words. And space is so really big that our earthly measures of distance struggle. The distance to…
My colleagues and I have confirmed the existence of a new type of star cluster – as published recently in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. But what are star clusters, and why do they…
It was written in the stars all along, but we’ve just found out: a whopping 70% of stars in a widely-studied cluster die before reaching old age which, for stars, is the most productive stage of their…
Astrophysicists from Monash University have found that stars with a high sodium content die before reaching their final life…
SS Cygni, a famous stellar system made up of one normal star and one dead star, is much closer than previously thought, according to a new study by Australian researchers and citizen scientists. The new…
For the first time, the oscillating signal that heralds the last gasps of a star falling victim to a previously dormant supermassive…
Explosive outbursts of super-hot gas in a galaxy 300 million light-years away have provided evidence of the first known “middleweight” black hole, according to scientists who observed the plasma jets with…
A group of 675 stars has been discovered on the outskirts of our Milky Way galaxy, having been shot out by the black hole…
Our galaxy may be teeming with so-called ‘nomad planets’, which travel through space rather than orbiting stars, according…
The star with the fastest rotation ever recorded has been discovered by researchers at the University of California, Santa…
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