BEFORE the advent of the accretion theory of stellar evolution, physical theory had progressed sufficiently to suggest the transmutation of hydrogen as providing practically all the stellar energy.

Very massive stars are cosmic "rock stars" that live fast, die young and leave black holes in their place. During this ...

An international research team led by researchers, Sung-Han Tsai and Ke-Jung Chen from the Institute of Astronomy at Academia Sinica, has made significant new discoveries in binary star evolution ...

A new study published in Nature Communications is shedding new light on the theory of stellar evolution. Astronomers at the University of Innsbruck have shown that the way a star forms has an impact ...

New life for controversial stellar wind theory Date: April 12, 2012 Source: Uppsala University Summary: Astronomers have succeeded in identifying a specific kind of dust grain in the vicinity of ...

Astronomers have discovered a new star that is 30 times larger than the sun and could force a major rethink of stellar evolution theories. The star, designated J0524-0336 and located around 30,000 ...

This multi-wavelength study, which was published this week in The Astrophysical Journal Letters, revealed that, in sharp contradiction to expectations and stellar evolution theory, SN 2023ixf’s ...

The first 3D view of the formation and evolution of globular clusters. Istituto Nazionale di Astrofisica. DOI 10.1051/0004-6361/202451054 ...

Stars are responsible for the production of (almost all) the elements in the Periodic Table. Some elements are formed during the quiescent phases of nuclear fusion that happen during a star’s life.

Life on Earth could not exist without carbon. But carbon itself could not exist without stars. Nearly all elements except ...