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Astronomy

NIGHT SKY: See a bright comet make a close flyby this Sunday

On 16 Sunday December, comet 46P/Wirtanen will make one of the 10 closest approaches of Earth in 70 years – and you may even be able to see it without a telescope

Deep Space

Mysterious ‘alien megastructure star’ could be caused by dust

Tabby’s Star has baffled astronomers for years, as it shows completely unexpected light variation

News

Space telescope maps star’s ‘death spiral’ into a black hole

Some 290 million years ago, a star much like the Sun wandered too close to the central black hole of its galaxy

News

‘Elusive’ brown dwarf finally pinpointed by space telescopes

The object is thought to be the missing link between planets and stars, with a mass up to 80 times that of Jupiter

News

NASA spacecraft harvest a batch of ‘pumpkin stars’

Rapidly spinning stars that produce X-rays at more than 100 times the peak levels ever seen from the Sun have been discovered

News

Space telescopes capture black hole belching a massive flare

The strange behaviour of black holes has become somewhat less mysterious recently, according to NASA’s Swift spacecraft and NuSTAR satellite

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