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A newly discovered, highly magnetic and massive helium star could explain how magnetars, stellar corpses with the universe's strongest magnetic fields, are born.
This unusual system 'shouldn't exist,' says one astronomer, who notes the orbit is as long as his dacommute.
A binary star system has been discovered that contains two stars orbiting around each other so closely that they could fit inside the Sun together. As detailed in a study, set to be published in the journal TK, the system comprises stellar objects known as a brown dwarf and a red dwarf, locked in intimate […]
From the blog of Mel Alexenberg at The Times of Israel
These 'ultracool' stars have such low temperatures that they only emit infrared light.