Stars, as we well know, are absolutely humongous—our own star, the Sun, can comfortably fit all of the Solar System’s planets inside it—but how big can they really get?
Related Posts
A Nasa rover has reached a promising place to search for fossilised life on Mars
NASA/JPL-Caltech Sean McMahon, The University of Edinburgh While we go about our daily lives on Earth, a nuclear-powered…
A Distant Supernova Appeared In Three Spots In the Sky At Once—And It Will Likely Appear Again
Supernovae have long been the subject of intense study by astronomers and astrophysicists. From seemingly birthing the elements…
A Supernova For the History Books
On February 23, 1987, the supernova SN1987A exploded in the Large Magellanic Cloud, visible to the naked eye…
Caroline Herschel was England’s first female professional astronomer, but still lacks name recognition two centuries later
The Herschel Museum in Bath, England, has a new display of a handwritten draft of Caroline Herschel’s memoirs.…