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When stars “die,” they leave one of two objects behind. Massive stars explode as supernovae, creating remnants of gas and dust like the Crab Nebula (M1). Credit: ASA, ESA, J. Hester and A. Loll (Arizona State University)

Milky Way, Stars

How many stars die in the Milky Way each year?

The very center of globular cluster NGC 6397

How do globular clusters remain intact for so long?

The Orion nebula as seen by the JWST, appears like a pillowy, colorful, massive cloud of gas and dust.

Exoplanets, Stars

JWST spots oceans’ worth of water evaporating from a star’s planet-forming disk

The Orion nebula as seen by the JWST, appears like a pillowy, colorful, massive cloud of gas and dust.

JWST data show intense bursts of radiation are vaporizing parts of a young star’s disk in the Orion Nebula

JWST's false-color image of the JADES-GS-z7-01-QU galaxy

Galaxies, Stars

Astronomers find the corpse of a galaxy early in the universe

Albireo

Why are there no green stars?

NGC 4565, the Needle Galaxy, was imaged with a ZWO ASI294MC Pro on a Takahashi FSQ-106N with 18 hours and 50 minutes of exposure.

Deep-Sky Objects, Observing Basics

Here are a few targets Messier missed that are worth a visit

A photograph of the sun showing it blazing briilliantly.

How will the Sun die?

Supernova 1987A, imaged by the Hubble and JWST. The faint blue source in the centre is the emission detected with the JWST/NIRSpec instrument. The bright stars to the left and right of the inner ring are unrelated to the supernova. Credit: Hubble Space Telescope WFPC-3/James Webb Space Telescope NIRSpec/J. Larsson

Exotic Objects, Stars

JWST’s new look at Supernova 1987A reveals a neutron star

Polaris lights up the Little Bear in the north.

Deep-Sky Objects

Binocular Universe: Northward bound

JWST catches galactic ‘cat’s tail’ in Beta Pictoris system

Against a pitch black background, the Sun glows as a bright orange disk speckled with darker regions of sunspots and bright filaments of gas snaking across its surface and off of its edges.

How the Sun will die: This Week in Astronomy with Dave Eicher