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 ...

Astronomers have found a unique "pinwheel" star system in our own galaxy, one that will eventually die in a massive explosion that's never been seen before here in the Milky Way, a new study reports.

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 ...

Images of the system evoke the mythology, suggesting a star embattled within a serpent's coils. Apep also offers a surprise. Our calculations clock the speed of the Wolf-Rayet's expanding gas wind ...

ESO/VLT/ Callingham et al. Apep, a triple star system containing a Wolf-Rayet binary and a hot supergiant, in the Norma constellation. The serpentine swirls are formed by the collision of two sets ...

The authors named the star system Apep after a serpent deity from ancient Egyptian mythology that's the mortal enemy of sun god Ra. Study co-author Peter Tuthill of the University of Sydney said ...

Astronomers have found a unique "pinwheel" star system in our own galaxy, one that will eventually die in a massive explosion that's never been seen before here in the Milky Way, a new study reports.