Named Kohoutek 4-55, the nebula was captured by the Hubble Space Telescope. Planetary nebulae like Kohoutek 4-55 are the ...

Theoretically, Sunbird's tremendous speeds could cut mission times to Mars in half, from seven to eight months to about four.

Kohoutek 4-55 is a dazzling planetary nebula captured in vivid color by the Hubble Space Telescope. Formed by the dramatic ...

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Scientists are conducting experiments to generate clean energy through fusion, the same sub-atomic reaction that powers our Sun, with the aim of constructing plants that produce more energy than they ...

This is a huge nuclear ... stars or in nuclear weapons,” said Brian Appelbe, a research fellow from the Centre for Inertial ...

When a star comes to the end of its life and dies, it can be an epic and destructive event, throwing out an explosion of heat and light — but it can create stunning new forms as well. A gorgeous new ...

V664 Cas is a binary system consisting of a white dwarf, a stellar corpse, and a red giant star ... ejected from a star as it exhausted its supply of fuel to sustain nuclear fusion in its core.

At that temperature, protons can collide so forcefully that nuclear fusion ... the star grow larger, they cool off and become reddish in color. A red star is cooler at its surface than a blue ...

"The only working fusion power plants right now in the universe are stars," said Dennis Whyte, professor of nuclear science and ... rapid building in 2024 of a giant new laser-fusion site in ...

Focused aims to build a fusion pilot plant at RWE's Biblis site by 2035. Biblis, Germany's oldest nuclear plant ... fuels the sun and stars. Physicists have tried for decades to replicate fusion ...