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Astronomers uncover how massive stars form by tracking interstellar ammonia. Using the U.S. National Science Foundation ...

Heavier elements formed later in high-mass stars." In the Milky Way, molecular clouds that birth stars have a wiry, or "filamentary," structure that breaks apart to form a molecular cloud core, ...

With an assist from the NEID spectrograph, a team of astronomers have confirmed the existence of exoplanet Gaia-4b—one of the ...

The 2024-25 Central Mass High School Sports Awards show was Wednesday night at the DCU Center. The show was produced with the ...

Low-mass stars turn into giant stars at the end of their lives, and high-mass stars become supergiants or even hypergiants. At the same time, the brightest stars have the shortest lifespans.

For low- to medium-mass stars like the sun, ... There is another kind of star explosion called—unsurprisingly—a Type II supernova, which is triggered when a high-mass star dies.

Supermassive black holes usually lurk unseen, but when an unlucky star drifts too close they ignite titanic outbursts ...

There are many more low-mass stars than high-mass stars because star formation favors objects of lower mass and stars with more mass have shorter lifespans, said study coauthor Roman Gerasimov, a ...

High-mass stars, on the other hand, have sufficient pressure and temperature at the core to do what it takes to continue fusing the newly minted atoms they formed earlier.

There are many more low-mass stars than high-mass stars because star formation favors objects of lower mass and stars with more mass have shorter lifespans, said study coauthor Roman Gerasimov, a ...