The IAU Office for Astronomy Outreach (OAO), and its partners, Stars Shine for Everyone (Sterren Schitteren voor Iedereen, SSVI) and the University of Leiden, have announced the awardees of the 2022 … [+2187 chars]
Not all stars are happy to just hang around, orbiting the galactic center with all the other stars. Some stars go rogue, punted out across the Milky Way with significant force. These are the runaway … [+3692 chars]
Does anybody remember GLASS-z13? No? It was spotted by the James Webb Space Telescope and championed as the "oldest galaxy ever seen" and it was announced... six days ago. Yes, that's right. Not ev… [+4762 chars]
A dense, collapsed star spinning 707 times per secondmaking it one of the fastest spinning neutron stars in the Milky Way galaxyhas shredded and consumed nearly the entire mass of its stellar compani… [+8772 chars]
