The swirling, paint-like clouds in the darkness of space in this stunning image seem surreal, like a portal to another world ...

Kohoutek 4-55 is a dazzling planetary nebula captured in vivid color by the Hubble Space Telescope. Formed by the dramatic ...

The stars expand and can engulf nearby planets, effectively incinerating them. In approximately five billion years, Earth’s own sun will turn into a red giant and engulf planets, including our ...

A red giant star and white dwarf orbit each other in this animation of a nova similar to T Coronae Borealis. NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center Astronomers have been watching a small constellation ...

T CrB is a symbiotic binary, a vampire system in which a white dwarf is siphoning material from a red giant star. A white dwarf is the dense, compact core remnant of a once sun-like star ...

Betelgeuse is the shoulder of Orion, a red giant sitting about 500 light ... Because we're talking about a giant star turning itself into an uncontrolled nuclear bomb and detonating with enough ...

Publications of the Astronomical Society of the Pacific Vol. 114, No. 794, April 2002 Red Giant Branch Stars: The Theoretical ... Red Giant Branch Stars: The Theoretical Framework This is the metadata ...