Figure 1: Optical line emission from a high-velocity, jet-like, knotty outflow in the carbon star V Hya. Figure 2: A geometrical model of the high-velocity knotty jet and the central continuum ...

Pictured is the young sun-like star TW Hydrae, which is a favorite for astronomers both because it's close — about 175 light years away — and because it's a young, "infant" star at only about ...

Two telescopes charted the structure of a star about to die in unprecedented detail. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works.

Each week, Astronomy magazine Senior Editor Michael E. Bakich, a master at explaining how to observe, posts a podcast about three or more objects or events you can see in the sky.

This four-panel graphic illustrates how the binary-star system V Hydrae is launching balls of plasma into space. Panel 1 shows the two stars orbiting each other. One of the stars is nearing the ...

Researchers using NASA's Hubble Space Telescope spotted a large gap in the planet-forming debris disk surrounding the red dwarf star TW Hydrae, which lies about 176 light-years from Earth in the ...

In this graphic, the Alma image of W Hydrae is compared with the best images so far of other stars: the red giant R Doradus, the red supergiants Antares and Betelgeuse. A variety of imaging ...

Jellyfish's stinging cells hold clues to biodiversity Date: May 12, 2022 Source: Cornell University Summary: The cnidocytes -- or stinging cells -- that are characteristic of sea anemones, hydrae ...

High spatial-resolution image of AlO and SiO molecules around AGB star W Hydrae, observed using ALMA, with AlO molecule emissions in red and those from SiO molecules and the star in yellow.