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Blue super giants are stars that are too bright and too big. Stellar models predict that […]
Growing evidence for the existence of very massive stars (up to 500 Solar Masses) motivated the […]
I am heading to Amsterdam as a University Lecturer and MacGillabry Fellow to start a new […]
Incidence of mergers and other products among a typical population of massive stars. A merger between […]
Seventy percent of all O-stars is expected to interact with a binary companion during it’s life. […]
Stellar models suggest that rotation can have drastic impact on the evolution of massive stars, but […]
The Hubble Tarantula Treasury Project (HTTP), an ongoing multi color imaging survey lead by Elena Sabbi […]
Why do stars rotate the way they do? Nature or Nurture? Is their rotation rate set […]
We report the detection of a strong, organized magnetic field in the secondary component of the […]
New paper Accepted for publication in A&A available on ArXiv. (Sana, de Koter, de Mink et […]
Astronomers have discovered two clusters full of very bright stars on the verge of merging. The […]
A new study using ESO’s Very Large Telescope (VLT) has shown that most very bright high-mass […]
Several million stars are vying for attention in this NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope image of a […]
In this astrometric program we use the unique capabilities of the Hubble Space Telescope to measure […]
Bob Hirshon from the AAAS science society discusses the discovery of the fastest spinning star in […]
The VLT-FLAMES Tarantula Survey I: Introduction and observational overview C. J. Evans (UKATC), W. D. Taylor, […]
Binary progenitor models of type IIb supernovae J.S.W. Claeys, S.E. de Mink, O.R. Pols, J.J. Eldridge, […]
Rotating Massive Main-Sequence Stars II: Simulating a Population of LMC early B-type Stars as a Test […]
Rotating Massive Main-Sequence Stars I: Grids of Evolutionary Models and Isochrones Ines Brott, Selma E. de […]