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

July’s predawn sky offers some rare events, providing another reason to get outdoors to enjoy the relatively cool mornings.

Moon Glows Beside Famous Red Star Antares Today (Image: Canva) On the evening of June 9, skywatchers will be treated to a beautiful cosmic pairing.

WOH G64 WOH G64 is another giant star, located in the Large Magellanic Cloud, a small galaxy near ours. It’s about 1,540 times wider than the Sun, making it an enormous red supergiant.

Home Articles Using Detailed Single-star and Binary-evolution Models to Probe the Large Observed Luminosity Spread of Red Supergiants in Young Open Star Clusters ...

Many are red supergiants, like the star Betelgeuse in Earth's galaxy. The galaxy they were found in was formed when the universe was about half its current age, the study said.

Discovering a single distant star is remarkable on its own. In November 2024, astronomers captured the first detailed image of a star outside our galaxy—a red supergiant in its final stages of life.

Astronomers used Webb's high-resolution optics and distortion in space to reveal the existence of dozens of previously unknown stars, the researchers said. The detection of a "treasure trove" of ...

Westerlund 1 is the largest known super star cluster in the Milky Way galaxy, and also the closest to Earth. Several of the stars in the image exhibit Webb's trademark diffraction spikes.

Open star clusters are extremely common in the Milky Way, with over 1,110 already been found. However, what makes Barbá 2 unique is the presence of several supergiants in the same cluster. Life and ...