Astronomers first documented a CME in 1859, in conjunction with the widespread energy grid disruptions that later became known as the Carrington Event. Since then, every observed CME has traced back ...
In a small blow to the search for extraterrestrial life, a nearby star shot out a strong enough coronal mass ejection to ...
The explosive death of a star - a supernova - is among the most violent cosmic events, but precisely how this cataclysm looks ...
The discovery of a superheated star factory that forms stars 180 times faster than our own Milky Way could help solve a ...
Swift observations with the European Southern Observatory's Very Large Telescope (ESO's VLT) have revealed the explosive ...
Astronomers have uncovered a previously unknown, extreme kind of star factory by taking the temperature of a distant galaxy ...
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A UCLA-led team has achieved the sharpest-ever view of a distant star’s disk using a groundbreaking photonic lantern device on a single telescope—no multi-telescope array required. This technology ...