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Astronomers discovered the cosmic crime scene while studying an ancient star that has expanded in its old age to became a so-called "red giant." The star, called BD+48 740, is older than our sun ...

Stars with companions lose mass about six to 10 times faster than those without, Decin estimates, because it’s much more efficient for a companion star to pull off a red giant’s shell than for ...

The superdense corpse of a once-massive star roared back to life, briefly, by feasting on its dying companion, a new study suggests. In August 2017, the European Space Agency's (ESA) International ...

Our own Sun will approach its red giant phase some 6 billion years from now, running out of fuel and causing its core to contract. As it approaches death, the Sun will expand and engulf the inner ...

Massive stars, as they near the end of their lives, undergo dramatic transformations. One of the most striking phases occurs ...

HOUSTON (KXAN) — A smell that you can’t blame on the dog. A dying star is stinking up space roughly 5,000 light years away. NASA and the European Space Agency have released a photo of the ...

How a dying star is similar to a lava lamp. Astronomers captured bubbling cells of gas 75 times as wide as the sun in this red giant star.

The star, R Doradus, is a red giant roughly 350 times the Sun’s diameter. Its convection cells are dozens of times the size of the Sun itself, and they rise and fall over a period of a few weeks.

Recently, scientists managed to capture the final death throes of the dying star using ground-based telescopes. The star was a red supergiant star, and while not the brightest or biggest stars out ...

Haunting image of dying ‘red giant’ stuns stargazers with its heavenly ‘wings’ Katherine Fidler Published July 14, 2023 1:56pm Updated July 14, 2023 2:06pm ...

A grand finale — A dying star’s last hurrah At the end of their lives, sunlike stars metamorphose into glowing shells of gas. Dana Mackenzie, Knowable Magazine - Jul 17, 2022 11:00 am UTC ...