The findings reveal that the inner disk touching the young star is extraordinarily hot, challenging conventional ...

In 1936 astronomers watched as FU Orionis, a dim star in the Orion constellation, brightened dramatically. The star’s ...

This is an artist's concept of the early stages of the young star FU Orionis (FU Ori) outburst, surrounded by a disk of ...

Ultraviolet light reveals new information about the FU Orionis' mechanisms. In 1936, the young star FU Orionis (FU Ori) ...

Astronomers using NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope have uncovered surprising details about the young star FU Orionis (FU Ori) in ...

A team of astronomers studied the interaction between FU Ori’s surface and the accretion disk using NASA's Hubble Space ...

the young star FU Orionis (FU Ori) became a hundred times brighter in a matter of months. At its peak, FU Ori was intrinsically 100 times brighter than our Sun. Unlike an exploding star though ...

New results from NASA's Hubble Space Telescope reveal that a young star, FU Orionis (FU Ori), is circled by a disk of material that is much hotter than expected-16,000 Kelvin, or nearly three times ...