Astronomers may have solved the mystery of how some of the brightest and hottest stars in the cosmos are born. The team, led by researchers at the Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias (IAC), found ...

Some of the brightest and hottest stars in existence may be formed by the collision of two other stars, astronomers have found. The formation of these intensely bright stars, called blue supergiants, ...

An international piece of research, led by the Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias (IAC) has found clues to the nature of some of the brightest and hottest stars in our universe, called blue ...

Image of the double cluster h and xi Persei, in the constellation of Perseus, with the blue supergiants in the study shown with crosses and including a typical spectrum from the sample. Credit must be ...

BERKELEY – Twenty years ago next month, the closest and brightest supernova in four centuries lit up the southern sky, wowing astronomers and the public alike. A Luminous Blue Variable star named ...

Blue stars are by far the biggest and brightest stars in the galaxy. To the naked eye, the stars in the night sky all look very similar to each other, the main difference between them being that some ...

Blue supergiants are rock-and-roll: they live fast and die young. This makes them rare and difficult to study. Before space telescopes were invented, few blue supergiants had been observed, so our ...

"The newly born stars live as blue supergiants throughout the second-longest phase of a star's life, when it burns helium in its core." When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an ...

Artistic image of a binary system of a red giant star and a younger companion that can merge to produce a blue supergiant. B-type blue supergiants are very luminous and hot stars (at least 10,000 ...