Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The star V Hydrae is dying. But it’s dying with style. It’s about 1,400 light-years from Earth, and was once similar to the Sun ...

The NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope celebrates Halloween this year with a striking observation of the carbon star CW Leonis, which resembles a baleful orange eye glaring from behind a shroud of smoke.

Carbon stars are characterised by an atmospheric carbon-to-oxygen ratio exceeding unity, yielding spectra dominated by molecular bands such as C2 and CN. Observational programmes in optical, infrared ...

The orange-red “cobwebs” in this Hubble image are dusty clouds of sooty carbon engulfing the dying star CW Leonis. They were created from the outer layers of the star being thrown out into the inky ...

Using the European Herschel space telescope, an international team including astronomers at Observatoire de Paris, Institut de Radio Astronomie Millimetrique and Observatoire de Grenoble in France ...

This Hubble Space Telescope image shows the colorful globular cluster NGC 2108. The cluster is nestled within the Large Magellanic Cloud, in the constellation of the Swordfish (Dorado). It was ...