New high-resolution images show that novae are anything but simple stellar fireworks. One exploded with multiple gas streams colliding almost immediately, while another shockingly delayed its eruption ...

Grounded in the latest research, this eBook provides a close examination of how advanced 3D optical profilometry - particularly non-contact techniques like white light interferometry - can reveal ...

Stars and planets are inextricably linked. They form together and stars shape the fate of planets. Stars create the dusty ...

Eric and Wendy Schmidt are backing a start-up-like approach to building a giant space telescope and powerful ground ...

Overlay of the infrared emission (black and white) with the radio emission (colour). The dark, low-mass object is located at ...

SPIE Photonics West sees the global optics and photonics community come together to present and discuss the latest industry ...

Nova explosions, which were thought until now to be relatively simple, are actually turning out to be very different. An international team has published in Nature Astronomy images with ...

New research explains how dust links the formation, evolution, and fate of stars and planets, and why future telescopes are needed to observe these processes in detail ...

Gas and dust flowing from stars can, under the right conditions, clash with a star's surroundings and create a shock wave.

When snow shut down one of Earth’s most advanced telescopes high in Chile’s Atacama Desert, the surprise was not just that the instruments went dark, but that it happened in a place famous for almost ...

A quantum trick based on interferometric measurements allows a team of researchers at LMU to detect even the smallest ...

Astronomers have observed a white dwarf - a highly compact Earth-sized stellar ember - that is creating a colorful shockwave ...