Scientists studying a group of stars made an astonishing but “serendipitous” discovery when they realized that Gamma Columbae, a fairly average celestial body, might actually be the “stripped ...

The stripped core of a star that was 12 times as massive as the sun was discovered by chance during a stage of stellar evolution that lasts the blink of a cosmic eye. When you purchase through links ...

Stars are born in a cosmic tug-of-war. The interplay between gravity, turbulence, and magnetic fields (B-fields) weaves ...