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Planets Make it Harder to Figure out a Star’s age

Estimating stellar age has always been a challenge for astronomers. Now, a certain class of exoplanets is making...

Another Reason Red Dwarfs Might Be Bad for Life: No Asteroid Belts

In a recent study accepted to The Astrophysical Journal Letters, a team of researchers at the University of Nevada,...

The ‘Brightest of All Time’ Gamma-Ray Burst Sparks a Supernova Hunt

On the morning of October 9, astronomers’ inboxes pinged with a relatively modest alert: NASA’s Swift Observatory had just...

Hubble Looks at Newly Forming Stars in a Stellar Nursery

When we look at images of star birth regions, they look both placid and active at the same time....

A New 3,200-Megapixel Camera Has Astronomers Salivating

The world’s biggest digital camera is finally coming into focus. While a very powerful personal camera might have...

What Drives Galaxies? The Milky Way’s Black Hole May Be the Key

On May 12, at nine simultaneous press conferences around the world, astrophysicists revealed the first image of the black...

Astronomers Think They Have a Warning Sign for When Massive Stars are About to Explode as Supernovae

Red supergiant stars are explosions waiting to happen. They are in the last stage of their life, red...

The James Webb telescope captured a stunning image of the ‘fingerprint’ that forms when 2 stars come close to each other in orbit

The two stars in Wolf-Rayet 140 produce shells of dust every eight years that look like rings, as seen...

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