Insights gained by scientists while studying the R Doradus giant star could be applicable to other dying stars.

For decades, astronomers treated starlight and dust as a simple conveyor belt, a steady wind that carried the raw ingredients ...

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Swift observations with the European Southern Observatory's Very Large Telescope (ESO's VLT) have revealed the explosive death of a star just as the blast was breaking through the star's surface. For ...

You are watching a long-held idea in stellar physics face serious scrutiny. Researchers at Chalmers University of Technology, ...

New observations of the red giant star R Doradus suggest starlight alone cannot drive stellar winds that spread key elements through the galaxy.

Astronomers from the University of Hawaiʻi Institute for Astronomy (IfA) have uncovered the turbulent past of a distant red giant by listening to its celestial "song." Subtle variations in the star's ...

You live in a galaxy packed with black holes that never announce themselves. They do not blaze in X-rays or glow with stolen gas. They hide. Astronomers find them by watching the stars that dance ...