When a star is young, it is often still surrounded by a primordial rotating disk of gas and dust, from which planets can form. Astronomers like to find such disks because they might be able to catch ...

Astronomers have recently made an exciting discovery: SN 2024abfl, a low-luminosity Type IIP supernova in the galaxy NGC 2146. This rare find is shedding new light on how stars explode and the ...

In astrophysics, sometimes the seemingly most esoteric research is truly important. Stellar mass black holes are a case in point. Why should anyone care whether the galaxy is populated with stellar ...

A study published in Nature Astronomy and conducted by Guo Jianheng from the Yunnan Observatories of the Chinese Academy of Sciences offers a perspective on the violent atmospheric escape processes of ...