Actual image of a white dwarf feeding on material from a larger red giant 650 light years from Earth
The SPHERE planet-hunting instrument on the European Southern Observatory's Very Large Telescope captured this image of a white dwarf feeding on its companion star, a type of Red Giant called a Mira ...
An international team led by ESO astronomer Marina Rejkuba has discovered more than 1000 luminous red variable stars in the nearby elliptical galaxy Centaurus A (NGC 5128). This is the first time a ...
A new study conducted by a team of astronomers from Poland and South Africa provides more insights into the nature of Hen 3-160, a symbiotic binary system in the southern Milky Way. The research, ...
New Delhi: Till the end of the 20th century, scientists expected the universe to accelerate rapidly immediately after the Big Bang, and then slow down the expansion with the passage of time. Two ...
A recent groundbreaking study led by Professor Anupam Bhardwaj from the Inter-University Centre for Astronomy and Astrophysics (IUCAA) utilised 40 oxygen-rich Mira variable stars located in 18 stellar ...
Mira stars are only half as large as previously thought, according to a new study. Named for Mira, or Omicron (ο) Ceti, this class of stars contains variable red giants with periods ranging 80 to ...
Chaotic rivers of red and purple appear in this false-color composite image of the eclipsing binary star system R Aquarii, located some 650 light-years from Earth in the constellation Aquarius.
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