AGB Stars and the Cosmic Secrets within Presolar Grains
Presolar grains allowed astronomers to make significant discoveries about the evolution of AGB stars through precise chemical…
stellar evolution
What will Betelgeuse do next?
John Percy (University of Toronto) tried to answer this question in an article, dated 2020, focused on…
Understanding the life of stars with the James Webb Space Telescope
A meaningful comparison between the capabilities of the Hubble Space Telescope and the new James Webb Space…
Stars and dust
Space is actually full of dust, which can impact the evolution of stars and even of whole…
Arcturus: the red queen of the spring night sky
About the same mass as the Sun, and with a radius around 25 times greater: Arcturus gives…
Unveiling the Astrophysical Origins of the Elements: what are the major upcoming surveys?
The Vera Rubin Observatory (VRO), Euclid, NGRST, JWST and LISA are only some of the ambitious projects…
How do stars shine?
One of the very first questions anyone had when looking at the sky: how can all these…
Chemical enrichment of our galaxy by thermonuclear supernovae
A recent study about the role of supernovae originating from exploding white dwarfs shed more light on…
How are stars born from nebula of gas and dust in space?
And what is the difference between the nebula in which stars are born and the clouds that…
SN 1000+0216: the most distant supernova ever observed
Among the ten most important discoveries of the last decade, at the 10th place we find SN…