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Astronomers had long been suspecting that some stars do meet their end of life with a dual detonation and new images prove ...

Today, the sky’s most dramatic event occurs as the path of a total solar eclipse sweeps across the U.S. and the 2024 eclipse begins. At such times, the Moon is directly between the Sun and Earth ...

An international team, led by Instituto de Astrofísica e Ciências do Espaço (IA) researcher Ângela Santos, has made the first ...

A massive solar tornado, big enough to swallow the Earth, was observed twirling across the surface of the "quiet" sun last week. Using a telescope made from second hand parts, including part of an old ...

The icy giant is more than 10 times the size of any known comet, according to the National Radio Astronomy Observatory.

In this Astronomy 101 video, learn about the seemingly extraordinary qualities that make the Sun just an average star.

New images are key to understanding solar magnetic storms and other space weather that can disrupt systems on Earth.

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The sun burns because it is so hot and dense that the hydrogen atoms fuse together to make helium, releasing energy in the process. But the sun is also made of traces of other, heavier elements ...

Our discourse on the VVIP of the Solar System, the sun, took a trifle long. We spoke about the legends woven around it over a period of thousands of years, and countless eras and regions and the ...