Giant star

Scientists published research related to a red giant star explosion they witnessed in real-time-- a first for the history of astronomy.

TEHRAN (Tasnim) – Astronomers have gotten their best look yet at the surface of a red giant star.

Look up at the night sky and it is filled with stars. But only a microscopic fraction are visible to the naked eye. In fact, there are estimated to be 100 billion stars in 10,000 billion galaxies in the visible universe. This means that there are roughly 1024 stars out there.

Rigel is basically Orion’s ankle. You can find it if you look for the three stars of his belt, then down the belt to the bright white star below it. The name comes from Rijl Jauzah al Yusra, …

giant star workshop

Explore the different kinds of stars that populate the cosmos, from red giants to white dwarfs. See telescopic images of stars and learn about their features and evolution.

Since the beginning of human history, people have understood that the sun is a central part of life as we know it. It's importance to countless mythological and cosmological systems across the globe is a testament to this. But as our understand of it matured, we came to learn that the sun was here long before us, and will be here long after we're gone. Having formed roughly 4.6 billion years ago, our sun began its life roughly 40 million years before our Earth had formed.

'Hot Spot' Around Red Giant Star May Reveal Sun's Fate | Space.com 11/20/17 Astronomers have captured a stunning new view of the surface of an aging red giant star, revealing new clues about what the future may hold for our own sun

A close-up of the dying red giant star, T Leporis. It is 100 times larger than the Sun.

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Tania Australis giant star and some NGC-3184 Spiral Galaxy by : Mike Hamende Cropped close up mobile wallpaper 1080x2400

Scientists size up neutron stars using gravitational waves and light.

Mirach Giant star and it's Ghost cropped close up mobile wallpaper 1080x2400

Observations of distant gassy discs show how giant gas planets form along with their stars.

Locomotive company TransPennine Express teamed up with Engine to launch its 'Where Next?' campaign yesterday (4 April), by installing a giant, interactive North Star in Leeds.

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Sirius is the brightest star in Earth's sky because of how close it is to us. It's so bright you might see glints of different colors radiating from it.