Blue supergiants are rock-and-roll: they live fast and die young. This makes them rare and difficult to study. Before space telescopes were invented, few blue supergiants had been observed, so our ...
The three blue supergiants forming Orion’s Belt are prominent winter sky markers, visible worldwide and aligned along the Milky Way, according to Space.com.
Tonight, that is on Monday, December 8, 2025, skywatchers will be able to see the constellation Orion in the Northern Hemisphere’s southeastern sky by 9 p.m. at night. The whole of Orion’s Belt, which ...
BERKELEY – Twenty years ago next month, the closest and brightest supernova in four centuries lit up the southern sky, wowing astronomers and the public alike. A Luminous Blue Variable star named ...
In ancient Arabic, the three stars were collectively referred to as Al Nijad (“The Belt”), Al Alkat (“The Golden Grains or Nuts”), Al Nasak (“The Line”). In modern Arabic, they’re known as Al Mizan al ...
The Nature Index 2025 Research Leaders — previously known as Annual Tables — reveal the leading institutions and countries/territories in the natural and health sciences, according to their output in ...