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Stories about: red stars

Red Supergiants Create Type II Supernovas It's final! Astronomers are now able to say for sure that red supergiant stars indeed create type II supernovas, a hypothesis that has been around for a while, but for which there have been no direct pieces of evidence until now. This type of supernovas is prompted by the collapse of impressive stars, several hu... 20 March 2009 04:00 GMT Hubble Catches Glimpse of Rare Class of Galaxies The way galaxies transform from the pinwheel-shaped spirals – that tend to be blue or reddish – to the egg-shaped ellipticals was unknown to astronomers up until Hubble decided to send back a new set of pictures, detailing extremely rare red spiral galaxies, which experts now think may be the missing link... 22 December 2008 17:21 GMT