April 21 - 28 is International Dark Sky Week, a global celebration of the night sky during which like-minded organizations ...

Betelgeuse, approximately 100,000 times as luminous as the Sun and 400 million times its volume, is nearing the end of its life. As a variable star, it pulses with a heartbeat-like rhythm.

Betelgeuse is only 10 million years old, whereas our Sun is nearly five billion years old. However, Betelgeuse is about 700 times larger than our Sun, according to NASA, meaning it uses much more ...

Greetings, stargazers. Spring is galaxy season for many amateur astronomers. However, when looking through an eyepiece instead of a camera for astrophotography, you might think of this as the season ...

Betelgeuse, the classic example of a supernova ... Allowing for their masses, this means they are 1/60th as far apart as the Sun and Earth. It takes a long time for an orbit like that to decay ...

Researchers link two ancient mass extinctions to nearby supernova explosions, which may have damaged Earth's atmosphere and ...

Scientists mapped massive stars near the Sun to estimate the frequency of supernovae ... Only two nearby stars, Antares and Betelgeuse, could potentially explode as supernovae in the near future.

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Looking northwards, one can see Orion moving towards the northwestern horizon; Betelgeuse is about 33 degrees ... it takes the Earth to go around the sun – the Gregorian calendar was invented ...

This image, taken by NASA’s Solar Dynamics Observatory, shows our Sun—a 4.6-billion-year-old main sequence star. This illustration shows a red giant star, similar to Betelgeuse or Antares. NASA’s ...

The programme discovers how Esa's solar orbiter was built, and how it will protect itself against the sun's searing heat and investigate ... Chris Lintott investigates the strange dimming of ...

Patrick talks about its many fascinating features, among them white giant stars, the old red giant Betelgeuse, and the gas-cloud where ... will be seen as a black dot in transit across the sun's disc.