It's named Eos, after the Greek goddess of the dawn, and contains approximately 3,400 solar masses worth of gas.

The star blinked once—just a flash in the sky above Palomar Observatory in 2020. To most, it was another transient burst in ...

A disintegrating planet orbits a giant star. “The extent of the tail is gargantuan, stretching up to 9 million kilometers long,” says Marc Hon, a postdoc in MIT’s Kavli Institute for ...

Astronomers have discovered a previously unknown birthplace of some of the universe's rarest elements: a giant flare ...

Astronomers from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) have made an unusual discovery, finding a planet which is in the process of disintegrating. And as it decays, it is leaving behind a ...

Disintegrating planet orbits a giant star (Jose-Luis Olivares, MIT) Inspecting the planet further, they found that it is disintegrating at a dramatic rate, shedding a Mount Everest-equivalent of ...