The time until a star known as Betelgeuse explodes into a supernova has been debated in literature by the scientific ...

Neutron stars may be shrouded in axions Physicists show that neutron stars may be shrouded in clouds of 'axions' -- and that these clouds can teach us a lot Date: October 18, 2024 Source ...

One of the brightest stars in the night sky, Betelgeuse, may not be on the brink of exploding as a supernova, according to a ...

A rare kind of supernova devoid of hydrogen and helium is a known source of many metals, though whether the stars that give ...

A team of physicists from the universities of Amsterdam, Princeton and Oxford have shown that extremely light particles known as axions may occur in large clouds around neutron stars. These axions ...

An axion cloud around a neutron star. Credit: University of Amsterdam. A team of physicists from the universities of Amsterdam, Princeton, and Oxford has made an exciting discovery that could help ...

Betelgeuse, a red supergiant about 1,00,000 times brighter than our sun, exhibits two distinct pulsation patterns: a ...

New images from NASA's Hubble Space Telescope demonstrate how a withered star remnant is only mostly dead — that is until a ...

(via PBS Space Time) Neutron stars aren't dark matter--we figured that out a while ago. But new research is telling us that they may be dark matter factories. They may produce the exotic axion, one of ...

Nobel laureate Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar was one of the first scientists ever to merge the fields of physics and astronomy.

Core package to analyze gravitational-wave data, find signals, and study their parameters. This package was used in the first direct detection of gravitational waves (GW150914), and is used in the ...

Winds of Change: James Webb Space Telescope Reveals Elusive Details in Young Star Systems Oct. 7, 2024 — Planet-forming disks, maelstroms of gas and dust swirling around young stars, are ...