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HH 80/81, as captured by the Hubble telescope in the latest image, are the brightest Herbig-Haro (HH) objects known to exist.

For about three years now, scientists have been anticipating a nova explosion. Specifically, the explosion of the binary star ...

Using NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope (JWST), an international team identified a supernova’s source star, or progenitor, for the first time. The observations - combined with archival images from the ...

Space scientists have just released spectacular images documenting the death of a star, a process that has been continuously ...