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It Takes Very Special Conditions to Create This Bizarre Stellar Spectacle
A stellar odd couple 700 light-years away is creating a chaotically beautiful display of colourful, gaseous filaments. The Hubble captured…
We’re Now Just Weeks Away from a Stellar Explosion You Can See With Your Own Eyes
I’ve seen some pretty incredible things using my eyes.. First off of course, is the stunning sight of a dark…
A Mini-Neptune in the Habitable Zone in a Binary Star System
Sometimes, it seems like habitable worlds can pop up almost anywhere in the universe. A recent paper from a team…
You’re Looking at an Actual Image of a White Dwarf Feeding on Material from a Larger Red Giant, 650 Light Years from Earth.
The SPHERE planet-hunting instrument on the European Southern Observatory’s Very Large Telescope captured this image of a white dwarf feeding…
Split-Personality Pulsar Switches From Radio To Gamma-Rays
Another snapshot of our strange universe: astronomers recently caught a pulsar -- a particular kind of dense star -- switch…
Young Planets Migrated In Double-Star Systems, Model Shows
Binary star systems are downright dangerous due to their complex gravitational interactions that can easily grind a planet to pieces.…
Cosmology in the Year 1 Trillion
[/caption]Much of what is known today about the birth of the cosmos comes from astronomical observations at high redshifts. Due…
How Much Do Binary Stars Shape Planetary Nebulae?
[/caption] Planetary nebulae come in a dazzling array of shapes, from spherical shells of gas, to blobby structures barely containing…
T-Dwarf Stars Finally Reveal Their Mysterious Secrets
[/caption] Astronomers have recently discovered an exotic star system which has shed some light on the mass and age of…
Podcast: Binary Stars
Did you know that our Solar System is a rarity with its single star? Astronomers believe that most star systems…