The sun explosion comes courtesy of a dead sunspot called AR2987, according to SpaceWeather.com. The sunspot explosion released loads of energy in the form of radiation, which also led to a coronal mass...
Category - Stars
The sun is nearly a perfect sphere. Its equatorial diameter and its polar diameter differ by only 6.2 miles (10 km). The mean radius of the sun is 432,450 miles (696,000 kilometers), which makes its diameter about 864,938...
Astronomers have previously seen giant black hole shred apart stars. However, researchers have also detected supermassive black hole generating powerful outflows that can feed the dense clouds from which stars are...
Glowing with the radiance of 10 million times that of our own Sun, Pistol Star is one of the intrinsically brightest stars in our Galaxy. It appears as the bright white dot in the centre of this image. Related articles:...
The Pleiades star cluster, or Seven Sisters, is the most well-known star cluster in the night sky. It’s what’s known as an ‘open cluster’, which is a group of stars that form from the same huge cloud of dust and gas. As...
One of the brightest stars you’ll see in the sky these days is Betelgeuse star, whose red tones provide a fun sky watching target in February. Betelgeuse star is one of the three stars that make up the Winter...
NASA has caught a rare cosmic event with one of its newest telescopes a black hole violently ripping apart a star roughly the size of our sun. Telescopes have captured the rare light flash from a dying star as it was ripped...
Sirius, also known as the Dog Star or Sirius A. It is the brightest star in Earth’s night sky. The name means “glowing” in Greek. The expression “dog days” refers to the period from July 3 through...