One of the best places to study stars is inside “open clusters”, which are groups of stars that formed together from the same material and are bound together through gravity. Open clusters act as ...

The evolution of stars and their interactions with compact objects, such as black holes and neutron stars, remain pivotal in our understanding of the cosmos. Stellar evolution describes the life ...

A different kind of stellar life cycle What strikes me most about WD 0525+526 is how thoroughly it upends the tidy diagrams of stellar evolution that appear in textbooks. Those charts usually show a ...