The Pigeon Express
Indian astronomers have tracked a rare supernova explosion and traced it to one of the hottest kind of stars, called Wolf-Rayet stars or WR stars. The rare Wolf-Rayet stars are highly luminous objects a thousand times that of the Sun and have intrigued astronomers for long. These are massive stars and strip their outer hydrogen […]
Our galaxy, the Milky Way is being twisted and deformed by the gravitational force of a satellite galaxy – Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC). The LMC is at a distance of around 163,000 light-years and is the second- or third-closest galaxy to the Milky Way. Researchers at the University of Edinburg designed a statistical model in […]