Star Betelgeuse's Spectacular Supernova Will Be Visible With the Naked Eye
Betelgeuse, a red supergiant, has been getting brighter over the last few months, leading scientists to suggest it may explode sooner than expected.
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Betelgeuse, a red supergiant, has been getting brighter over the last few months, leading scientists to suggest it may explode sooner than expected.
An international team of astronomers reports the discovery of a new star cluster (SC) as part of the DECam Local Volume Exploration (DELVE) survey. The newfound cluster, designated DELVE 6, is ultra-faint, metal-poor and is estimated to be about 9 billion years old. The finding was detailed in a paper published June 7 on the pre-print server arXiv.
Powerful magnetic fields in the Tarantula Nebula prevent the region of the Large Magellanic Cloud from collapsing.
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The Tarantula Nebula is a star formation region in the Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC). Tarantula is about 160,000 light-years away and is highly luminous for a non-stellar object. It's the brightest and largest star formation region in the entire Local Group of galaxies.