A team of astronomers used three instruments from the Keck Observatory to study WR 104, a stellar system nicknamed the 'death ... a unique laboratory for studying massive stars and their interactions.

"Two massive stars in Wolf-Rayet 140 swing past one another, their winds collide, material compresses, and carbon-rich dust ...

Abstract: We present a study of optical spectra of the Wolf–Rayet star AzV 336a (=SMC WR7 ... We find SMC WR7 to be a double-lined WN+O6 spectroscopic binary with an orbital period of 19.56 d. The ...

Abstract: The Wolf–Rayet (WR) binary CV Serpentis (= WR113 ... dependent photometric observations obtained with the Microvariability and Oscillations of STars (MOST) space telescope in 2009 show two ...

"A planet orbiting not just a binary, but a binary brown dwarf, as well as being on a polar orbit, is rather incredible and ...

More information: Michalis Kourniotis et al, HD 144812: A transition-phase massive star in a binary system, arXiv (2025). DOI: 10.48550/arxiv.2503.19961 Journal information: arXiv ...

"Polar orbit" means that instead of orbiting in the same plane as where the two stellar objects are located, the planet’s ...

After converging, the binary star system will explode into a Type 1a supernova. Scientists have long predicted that two orbiting white dwarf stars are responsible for creating Type 1a supernovas ...

Katy is Managing Editor at IFLScience where she oversees editorial content from News articles to Features, and even occasionally writes some. In 2018, astronomers discovered a brown dwarf binary ...

Sky watchers were disappointed last night when a binary star system didn’t erupt in a nova explosion that was predicted to take place on Thursday. But fear not, the famous blaze star is still ...

Geils Band and on his own, Peter Wolf has become well-known and much loved ... and the cavalcade of other stars he’s worked with will be revelatory for many readers.