The stripped core of a star that was 12 times as massive as the sun was discovered by chance during a stage of stellar evolution that lasts the blink of a cosmic eye. When you purchase through links ...
Scientists have for the first time peered inside a dying star as it exploded in a supernova, gaining not just unprecedented views of its layers, but more so, insight into the process of stellar ...
In a series of observations that read like science fiction, astronomers now suspect they have watched a star quite literally ...
AUSTIN (KXAN) — The insides of a star are on full display thanks to an explosion. New research published this month in Nature is revealing the details of a star’s core. “This is the first time we have ...
Orsola De Marco received funding from the Australian Research Council. She is affiliated (non-executive director of the Board) with Astronomy Australia Ltd. a not-for-profit company serving Australian ...
One of the Milky Way’s brightest stars visible with the naked eye, Gamma Columbae, is actually a stripped-back stellar core. We don’t know how the cores of most typical stars function because they are ...
Earth's inner layers have just got a bit more complicated, with scientists discovering a whole new inner core within the center of the planet. Research released on February 21 in the journal Nature ...