An international research team led by PD Dr. Florian Peissker at the University of Cologne has used the new observation ...

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For years, the center of our galaxy has been painted as a place where stars go to meet their end — a region ruled by Sagittarius A*, a black hole so massive that its gravity can stretch, tear, and ...

A nearby binary star system is bereft of giant planets, but scientists think it may still be a decent place to look for life.

Astronomers discovered a close companion star orbiting red giant π¹ Gruis, challenging stellar evolution models and revealing ...

New observations made with the ERIS instrument at the Very Large Telescope facility disprove the assumption that the supermassive black hole at the centre of the Milky Way devours nearby dust objects ...

Webb unveils Apep's swirling dust “serpents,” revealing a rare triple-star system carving perfect spirals across 700 years of ...

A nested series of dusty spirals is captured swirling around a mighty triple star system containing two of the rarest stars ...

The Webb telescope has unlocked a mystery in an exotic star system located approximately 8,000 light-years from Earth. Using ...

Astronomers have identified a tightly bound pair of stars that are spiraling toward a catastrophic merger, turning a distant stellar system into a natural laboratory for testing gravity at its most ...

"Young, alpha-rich stars are quite rare and puzzling. The combination of youth and ancient chemistry suggests this star ...

Webb's mid-infrared image shows four coiled shells of dust around a pair of Wolf-Rayet stars known as Apep for the first time ...