Latest about stars
Ultra-powerful plasma 'blades' could slice entire stars in half, new paper suggests
Stars could be sliced in half by "relativistic blades," or ultra-powerful outflows of plasma shaped by extremely strong magnetic fields, an unpublished paper claims.
Mysterious 'fountain of youth' near Milky Way's central black hole is full of newborn stars that shouldn't exist
New James Webb Space Telescope observations might be able to explain why clusters of young stars keep turning up near the Milky Way’s central black hole.
Gaia spacecraft reveals 'goldmine' of over 500,000 undiscovered stars
The European Space Agency's Gaia telescope revealed half a million newfound stars, and detailed the orbits of over 150,000 asteroids.
ESA scientists finally resolve glitch that caused Euclid spacecraft to 'doodle' through space
The European Space Agency's dark energy and dark matter spacecraft has once again found its guiding stars and is preparing for full "science mode."
How far apart are stars?
Scientists have calculated the average distance between stars, but there's much more to star distribution than meets the eye.
Do black holes really suck in matter?
Black holes can swallow matter, and they grow by accreting gas, dust and even the occasional star. But are they the vacuum-mouthed monsters they are often presented to be?
Will the sun ever become a black hole?
Black hole sun, won't you come? It all depends on a star's mass before it dies.
Could a star ever become a planet?
Most scientists say a star can never become a planet, but the boundaries between these stellar objects can sometimes be murky.
