Astronomers have discovered the first pairs of white dwarf and main sequence stars -- 'dead' remnants and 'living' stars -- in young star clusters. This breakthrough offers new insights on an extreme ...

Astronomers have revealed new details about how young stars shape their galactic surroundings in a new study. Researchers analyzed about 18,000 star-forming regions in nearby spiral galaxies using ...

An international team of astronomers reports the discovery of a new pre-main-sequence eclipsing binary system. The newfound binary, designated MML 48, consists of two young low-mass stars. The finding ...

Nucleosynthesis encompasses the network of nuclear reactions that forge the elements within stars and during stellar death. In the cores of main-sequence stars, hydrogen burning via the proton–proton ...

Galaxy mergers are fundamental events in the hierarchical assembly of structure, in which two or more gravitationally bound systems coalesce to form a single, more massive galaxy. Such interactions ...

CC0 Usage Conditions ApplyClick for more information. This presentation focuses on understanding the process of stellar evolution by using a series of materials, resources and investigations ...