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Astronomers spot 1st coronal mass ejection from an alien star – and that's bad news in the search for life

"Astronomers have wanted to spot a coronal mass ejection on another star for decades. We’ve now managed to do this for the ...
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How rare runaway dead stars are tricky clues for a cosmic mystery

Astronomers find an explanation for the fastest stars in the galaxy while uncovering a new mechanism for a supernova explosion. - Technion illustration Astronomers call a special kind of supernova a ...
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In another star system, a Pluto-like world survived until the bitter end

NASA's Hubble Space Telescope detected material from a Pluto-like body spiraling into a white dwarf star 260 light-years away from Earth. - NASA / JPL-Caltech / Tim Pyle illustration For the first ...
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Astronomers Spot a Rare Quadruple Star System in the Milky Way, Shedding Light on Mysterious Brown Dwarfs

An artist's depiction of the newly discovered "quadruple system" within the Milky Way. In it, two brown dwarfs orbit each other at the right, and together, they orbit a pair of red dwarf stars at the ...