While some stars reach the end of their lives in an explosion and turn into a supernova, others end up getting rid of their material before it contracts, cools and extinguishes. But they rarely suffer a more serious fate, when they are devoured by a “hungry” black hole. Such a thing only happens a few … Read more
Open groups are distinguished from globular groups by their more open and bound structure REPUBLIKA.CO.ID, WASHINGTON — Space Telescope Hubble capture the beautiful view of a nearby open star cluster slowly disappearing into the depths galaxy dwarfs around it. The photo shows the view as part of the Small Magellanic Cloud, a dwarf galaxy from … Read more
While we’ve discovered more than 5,000 exoplanets, most of the information we have is about them planets Simple enough, researchers usually know a planet’s mass or radius and its distance from its host star, but a little more, which makes it difficult to predict what these worlds really look like. However, new tools and technologies … Read more