Many red supergiant monster stars lurk in a Milky Way cluster astronomers have discovered with the Gaia space telescope. The cluster, Barbá 2, could help understand why some stars become black holes.

Astronomers have traced the source of mysterious high-energy X-rays and gamma rays in space to a little known star cluster in the Milky Way. IE 11 is not supported.

Like many similar red supergiants, KQ fluctuates slightly in brightness, causing the overall magnitude to change between 4.82 and 5.17. Open cluster M46 lies just over a degree east of M47, so it ...

A massive cluster of red supergiants--super-sized stars on the verge of exploding--was recently discovered in the Milky Way by a group of stronomers using infrared technology to penetrate the ...

The scientists looked at stars in the Perseus stellar cluster — a region with a high concentration of stars, particularly red supergiants, located around 7,500 light-years from the solar system ...

Venus continues to be the “Morning Star” in the east before dawn, albeit it has become dimmer — but still bright — as it ...

By Kat Troche As summer deepens in the Northern Hemisphere, a familiar constellation rises with the galactic core of the ...

Red-supergiant supernova images reveal secrets of an earlier universe. An international research team led by the University of Minnesota Twin Cities has measured the size of a star dating back 2 ...

NASA's Hubble Space Telescope has captured a young star cluster that's 30 light years in diameter and about 160,000 light years from ... there are five red supergiant stars at the center of NGC 2002.

Using a massive galaxy cluster as a magnifying lens, ... After burning out all its nuclear fuel, the red supergiant star, 11.5 billion light years away, exploded in a supernova.

Many red supergiant monster stars lurk in a Milky Way cluster astronomers have discovered with the Gaia space telescope. The cluster, Barbá 2, could help understand why some stars become black holes.