Giant star

Look up at the night sky and it is filled with stars. But only a microscopic fraction are visible to the naked eye. In fact, there are estimated to be 100 billion stars in 10,000 billion galaxies in the visible universe. This means that there are roughly 1024 stars out there.

Scientists published research related to a red giant star explosion they witnessed in real-time-- a first for the history of astronomy.

Explore the different kinds of stars that populate the cosmos, from red giants to white dwarfs. See telescopic images of stars and learn about their features and evolution.

Locomotive company TransPennine Express teamed up with Engine to launch its 'Where Next?' campaign yesterday (4 April), by installing a giant, interactive North Star in Leeds.

Remember in late 2019, when the famous red star Betelgeuse suddenly and mysteriously began dimming in brightness? Astronomers studying a similar star - VY Canis Majoris, one of the largest and brightest stars in our galaxy - commented that it's "behaving a lot like Betelgeuse on steroids."

Spica at 23°50′ Libra has an orb of 2°40′ The Sun joins Spica on October 16 Fixed star Spica, Alpha Virginis, is a 1st magnitude spectroscopic binary star system in the ear of wheat of the Maiden, Virgo constellation. Magnitude variable 0.97 (0.97–1.04), spectral type B1V (B1III-IV + B2V). [1] Alpha Virginis is traditionally and […]

NML Cygni or V1489 Cygni is a red hypergiant[2] and one of the largest stars currently known with a radius about 1,650 times the Sun's. Its distance from Earth is estimated to be about 5,300 light-years.