The image,taken by NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope, shows the Small Magellanic Cloud and givesastronomers an opportunity to study the entire life cycle of stars up close, aswell as the different ...

Among those rosy swaths, bursts of pink show where the star’s composite elements, including oxygen, argon and neon, are shining. For the researchers, one of the most puzzling elements of the image is ...

A star dies . When a star runs out of hydrogen fuel for nuclear fusion, its core begins to collapse. It enters the final stage of its life. At that point, the outer layers of the star expand and ...