30 December 2019
Will Betelgeuse go supernova soon? Probably not say some astronomers
... brightness from 1836 to 1840 and again in November 1839, where the star had outshone its constellation companion, Rigel. Although Betelgeuse was the first star apart from our Sun to have its photosphere imaged, the red...
21 March 2016
Using gravitational waves to search for Population III stars
... astronomers headed by Tilman Hartwig, from Sorbonne Universités, Paris have developed a model to simulate the formation of the first stars and to track the binary stellar evolution of the individual systems until these massive compact remnants merge...
30 November 2018
All of the starlight ever produced calculated by scientists
... billion years ago, etc. - all the way back to when the first stars were forming. “This allowed us to reconstruct the EBL and determine the star-formation history of the Universe in a more effective manner than had been...
15 April 2020
Scientists discover most brightest and energetic supernova yet
... pair-instability' supernova, possibly formed from two massive stars that merged before the explosion. Their findings are published... the deaths of the very first stars in the Universe." Supernova 2016aps was first detected in data from the Panoramic...
16 May 2018
Astronomers find stars forming just 250 million years after Big Bang
... began. The discovery of the oldest oxygen signal ever detected by any telescope is a tantalising one, as the very first stars are expected to be composed mainly of the lightest elements that were around in the Universe at that time; hydrogen...
03 November 2021
Astronomers spot the most distant detection of water in a star-forming galaxy
... the Universe was just 780 million years old—roughly 5-percent of its current age—and the first stars and galaxies were being born. But despite this youthful age, it appears galaxies were already pumping...
