Planetary embryo discovered
In order to understand how the solar system began, we need to further investigate the ways in which planets are formed. LkCa 15 may hold one of the answers.
What is a red-giant?
Near the end of a star’s life, the temperature in its core rises and causes the star to expand into a red-giant.
Which star is the largest?
The red hypergiant VY Canis Majoris holds the current distinction for being the largest star ever observed, in terms of volume, measuring 2,600 times larger than the Sun.
Black hole our galaxy’s darkest secret
At the very heart of our galaxy lies a black hole with a mass of 4 million suns. But stay calm ““ it is 26,000 light years away and has negligible influence at…
Galaxy Cannibalism: The Milky Way’s terrible table manners
Large galaxies such as our Milky Way are believed to form through mergers and accretions of smaller galaxies.
