98.5% of the Sun is made up of two light chemical elements, hydrogen and helium, while the remaining 1.5% consists of other heavier elements such as carbon, oxygen, and iron. The abundance of these ...

The study of stellar astrophysics and galactic structure investigates the life cycles of stars and the organisation of galaxies. At its core, the field explores how stellar evolution, from the ...

An international team of researchers including astrophysicists from the international Pristine collaboration published a paper today in Nature announcing their discovery of the remnants of a star ...

At the fringes of our galaxy, a multitude of fine ribbons of stars, previously unnoticed, has just been discovered. This find changes our view of the outer regions of the Milky Way. A team of ...

Distribution of very dense groups of stars in the Milky Way, called globular clusters, superimposed on a map of the Milky Way compiled from data obtained with the Gaia Space Observatory. Each dot ...