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This Odd Star Type Is Covered With Stellar “Ashes”—And Its Origins May Be Quite Explosive
A pair of new research fresh out of the Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society looks set…
Stars: From the Small to the Mind-Bendingly Massive
YouTube channel Kurzgesagt takes us on a tour of the truly massive, as they present a rundown of…
Astronomers Found a New Type of Nebula Surrounding a Binary Star
Stars and planetary systems are born out of nebulae that swirl and contract out of their collective gravitational…
An Oddball Neutron Star Just Spit Out a Huge Amount of Energy—Even by Sun Standards
It’s no surprise that the stars in the sky are regulars when it comes to spitting out energy—and…
Neutron Stars: The Limits of Density
PBS Space Time is back, and Matt O’Dowd is here to take us on a trip through one…
A Distant Star Unleashed the Most Massive Solar Storm We’ve Ever Seen
The Sun may look like just a bright ball of plasma from here on Earth, but ask any…
How Do Astronomers Produce Those Beautiful Images of Space?
You might have scrolled through social media one day and found these photos of space—usually accompanied with high…
Orion’s Nose May Hide a Rare Planet Orbiting Three Suns
It’s no surprise that the universe has many different ways of arranging its guts. Our Solar System may…
“The Accident” Brown Dwarf: A Grab Bag of Cosmic Anomalies
The universe is vast, and seemingly limitless. Naturally, there’s bound to be a handful of cosmic oddities out…
How Two Astronomers With Some Markers Linked Us To the Stars
A very spirited Carl Sagan once said in one of the episodes of his 1980 TV miniseries Cosmos:…