The star cluster R136 in the central region of the Tarantula Nebula. (Image credit: NASA, ESA, and P. Crowther (University of Sheffield)) Jump to: Extreme temperature Life-cycle Giant blue stars Additional information Blue stars are by far the biggest and brightest stars in the galaxy....
One of the biggest supermassive black holes ever found resides in NGC 4889 and contains 21 billion times the mass of the sun. However, even the most massive black holes aren't particularly large, since this type of structure is the densest in the universe. Nebulas, or vast clouds of gas ...
The study, published inNature, was a collaboration between Southampton, the Purple Mountain Observatory in China, and theChinese Academy of Sciences, among others. Experts analyzed more than 100 star-forming galaxies in the distant universe using the world’s largest radio telescope, known asALMA, ...
My six-year old daughter is a question-asking machine. We were driving home from school a couple of days ago, and she was grilling me about the nature of the Universe. One of her zingers was, “What’s the Biggest Star in the Universe”? I had an easy answer. “The Universe is a...
The red hypergiant Stephenson 2-18, also known as Stephenson 2 DFK 1 or RSGC2-18 is the largest known star in the Universe. It is so big that around 10 billion Suns could fit inside it. Stephenson 2-18 is located 20,000 light-years from Earth in the Scutum-Centaurus Arm of the Mil...
magnetic field much stronger than normal neutron stars, which are also known as radio pulsars [6]. Magnetars are thought to be the most strongly magnetised objects in the known Universe. This is the first time that such an unambiguous connection between a supernova and a magnetar has been ...
Jupiter will be at its biggest and brightest this weekend. Here’s how to see it Webb and Hubble snap the same object for two views of one galaxy Astronomers snap first up-close image of a star outside our galaxy Stunning images of nearby galaxies from the VLT Survey Telescope ...
I'm even willing to bet that there's not a single one of us who hasn't looked up on any given night, taken a deep breath, and just stared in awe. So with a new year here, 2024 is already welcoming its first of several shows the universe will perform for us. So get ready to ...
Gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) are the most powerful explosions known in the universe. On October 9, 2022, astronomers spotted the brightest GRB ever recorded, launched across space when a massive star located around 2.4 billion light-years from Earth collapsed, birthing a black hole. The GRB, offic...
“This is a 40-year-old mystery that we’ve solved,” said Yannis Liodakis, a NASA Postdoctoral Program researcher at NASA’s Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Alabama. “We finally had all of the pieces of the puzzle, and the picture they made was clear.” ...