One of the best places to study stars is inside “open clusters”, which are groups of stars that formed together from the same material and are bound together through gravity. Open clusters act as ...

The evolution of stars and their interactions with compact objects, such as black holes and neutron stars, remain pivotal in our understanding of the cosmos. Stellar evolution describes the life ...

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Astronomers have traced the origin of a colossal white dwarf to a catastrophic crash between two dead stars, turning a quiet stellar ember into a cosmic heavyweight. Using the Hubble Space Telescope, ...

New research explains how dust links the formation, evolution, and fate of stars and planets, and why future telescopes are needed to observe these processes in detail ...