Dying Stars May 'Dissolve' To Create Heavy Elements Published Apr 28, 2025 at 10:25 AM EDT Updated Apr 28, 2025 at 6:58 PM EDT By Ian Randall ...

Located about 28,000 light-years from Earth, WR 124 is known as a Wolf-Rayet star — a bright, short-lived massive star — and, as it nears the end of its life, the process of shedding its outer ...

Two teams of astronomers have simultaneously discovered a strange, spinning dead star that seems to defy our current understanding of both neutron stars and white dwarfs.

HB9, you are not the father! Neutron stars are generally thought to be created when massive stars with at least eight times the mass of our sun run out of fuel they need to maintain nuclear fusion ...

As massive stars collapse into black holes, powerful jets tearing out from their hearts may "dissolve" the stars' outer layers, providing the ingredients to make heavy elements. This is the ...