Play the USA TODAY Daily Crossword Puzzle. Apep’s stellar winds have created the dust cloud surrounding the system, which consists of a binary star with a fainter companion. The star is spinning ...

The Apep system, discovered just two years ago, is the latest known member of this elite class of binary stars. Each star in the Apep system is between 10 and 15 times greater than the mass of the ...

Researchers showcase a binary star that is rapidly burning through its fuel. The star, named Apep, is likely about to explode. It sits at a distance of 8,000 light-years from Earth, so it may have ...

After a star exhausts its hydrogen ... new discoveries has been the first confirmed twin Wolf-Rayet binary, a system called Apep, which my colleagues and I named after the mortal enemy of Egyptian ...

The VISIR instrument on ESO’s VLT captured this stunning image of a massive binary star system. Nicknamed Apep after an ancient Egyptian deity, it could be the first gamma-ray burst progenitor to be ...

The dust blowing away from Wolf-Rayet stars with a binary companion can become carved into spectacular shapes by the orbital interaction, like we see with WR 140 and Apep. WR 104 is notable not ...

Binary neutron star mergers, cosmic collisions between two very dense stellar remnants made up predominantly of neutrons, ...

For the first time, astronomers have spotted a rapidly spinning neutron star that is gravitationally bound to a helium star companion. The discovery of this unusual binary system helps confirm a ...

Play the USA TODAY Daily Crossword Puzzle. Apep’s stellar winds have created the dust cloud surrounding the system, which consists of a binary star with a fainter companion. The star is spinning ...