The remnant of a star roughly 20 times as massive as the Sun that exploded about 10,000 years ago, the Veil Nebula is situated about 2,400 light-years away in the constellation Cygnus. This view ...

Guido Barbiellini had an insatiable scientific curiosity and passion for physics. Credit: Family photograph Guido Barbiellini Amidei, who passed away on 15 November 2024, made fundamental ...

When you buy through links on our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn a commission. Credit: NASA/ESA/CSA/STScI A huge bipolar outflow of gas and dust, grown from the tumultuous ...

As it nears 35 consecutive years of space service, the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope has taken another look at a famous supernova remnant. The Veil Nebula is roughly 2,400 light-years away in ...

Neutron stars are some of the densest objects in the universe. They are the core of a collapsed megastar that went supernova, have a typical radius of 10 km—just slightly more than the altitude ...

"The goal of this project was to explore the fundamental low-mass limit of the star and brown dwarf formation process." The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) has probed deep into the dusty shroud ...

When you buy through links on our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn a commission. This collage of images from the Flame Nebula shows a near-infrared light view from NASA's ...

An international team of astrophysicists from China and Australia has for the first time determined how massive neutron stars are when they are born. An international team of astronomers led by ...

Physicists have measured a nuclear reaction that can occur in neutron star collisions, providing direct experimental data for a process that had previously only been theorised. The study, led by ...