One of the most interesting events in visual astronomy, and certainly the fastest, occurs when the moon occults a star. The moon's edge creeps up to it, seems almost to press against it for a number ...

According to ESA’s reporting on the study, the wave behaves like ripples expanding from a stone dropped into water, though in ...

Blue supergiants are rock-and-roll: they live fast and die young. This makes them rare and difficult to study. Before space telescopes were invented, few blue supergiants had been observed, so our ...

Skygazers in the UK are in for a treat tonight, as the ‘Pink Moon ‘ is set to light up the skies – along with a unique ‘blue giant’ star. This month’s full moon is known as the Pink Moon, as it’s the ...

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Astronomers have caught a supermassive black hole eating a giant star in the biggest and brightest example of this powerful event ever seen. It could be the missing link that helps us understand ...