Astronomers peering into the Large Magellanic Cloud have caught a white-dwarf crime scene in the act of giving up its secrets ...

There’s more than one way for a star to die. Some go with a whimper, and some go with a very, very big bang. Skip to main content. ... which is triggered when a high-mass star dies.

As per a report from Space.com, researchers used sophisticated models and observations to learn that very massive stars give ...

The Death Phases . The mass of a star is crucial as it moves away from its main sequence phase, ... High-Mass Stars . The ...

Astronomers have discovered the first evidence of a white dwarf wiped out by a double-detonation supernova, also providing ...

Massive stars often shed mass — just look at Betelgeuse's shenanigans over late 2019 and early 2020, when it belched out a cloud of matter with ten times the mass of Earth's moon that blocked ...

James Webb Space Telescope sees a celestial Venn diagram around a dying star; ... A high-mass star forms and dies quickly. These stars form from protostars in just 10,000 to 100,000 years.

The explosive stellar death of a high-mass star. Stars with mass eight times that of our sun typically follow a similar pattern, at least in the beginning of this phase.

This artist's impression shows how hot, brilliant and high-mass stars evolve. The more massive brighter star expands first, until the outer layers start to strongly feel the gravitational pull of ...

At the present time, the most massive stars remaining in M15 have about 80 percent of the mass of our Sun, a fact that makes the existence of a planetary nebula like K 648 something of a mystery.

While the proximity of ASASSN-14li and the cause of the star’s death were ... hole’s accretion disk were coming from a high-mass star—the team couldn’t rule out the possibility of the ...

Astronomers have mapped 39 interstellar clouds where high-mass stars are expected to form. This large data set shows that the accepted model of low-mass star formation needs to be expanded to ...