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Topic: Stars

Artist’s impression of a sub-Earth-mass planet orbiting Barnard’s star (ESO/M. Kornmesser)

Relatively close exoplanet discovered

A girl standing in the midst of the stars at night (Getty Images/sarayut Thaneerat)

Are we really made of stardust?

Carlyn Zwarenstein

Artist's impression of a cloud of smoke and dust being thrown out by a red giant star. Seen from the left the star remains bright but if viewed from the right it fades to invisibility. (Philip Lucas/University of Hertfordshire)

Strange new star discovered in Milky Way

Visualization of a binary star experiencing mass transfer. (Institute of Science and Technology Austria/Ylva Götberg)

"Bluest of blue" stars discovered

Artist’s impression composed of a star with a disc around it (a Be “vampire” star; foreground) and its companion star that has been stripped of its outer parts (background). (ESO/L. Calçada)

These bright blue stars form threesomes

The Pillars of Creation are set off in a kaleidoscope of color in NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope’s near-infrared-light view. The pillars look like arches and spires rising out of a desert landscape, but are filled with semi-transparent gas and dust, and ever changing. (NASA, ESA, CSA, STScI, Joseph DePasquale, Anton M. Koekemoer, Alyssa Pagan)

Listen to the sounds of the universe

Elizabeth Hlavinka

The researchers think that infrared light particles (photons) from the poles of the pulsar are boosted to gamma-ray energies (blue) by fast electrons. (Science Communication Lab for DESY)

Vera pulsar breaks a new energy record

Elizabeth Hlavinka

NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope’s high resolution, near-infrared look at Herbig-Haro 211 reveals exquisite detail of the outflow of a young star, an infantile analogue of our Sun. (ESA/Webb, NASA, CSA, Tom Ray (Dublin))

James Webb captures new baby star

Elizabeth Hlavinka

This artist impression shows HD 45166, a massive star recently discovered to have a powerful magnetic field of 43 000 gauss, the strongest magnetic field ever found in a massive star. (ESO/L. Calçada)

New magnetic type of star discovered

NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope has captured a tightly bound pair of actively forming stars, known as Herbig-Haro 46/47, in high-resolution near-infrared light. (NASA / ESA / CSA / Joseph DePasquale (STScI))

Baby stars spotted by James Webb

At the centre of this image is the young star V960 Mon, located over 5000 light-years away in the constellation Monoceros. Dusty material with potential to form planets surrounds the star. (ESO/ALMA (ESO/NAOJ/NRAO)/Weber et al.)

New image hints how planets form

In this artist’s interpretation, a pair of supermassive black holes (top left) emits gravitational waves that ripple through the fabric of space-time. (Photo courtesy of Aurore Simonnet for the NANOGrav Collaboration)

Scientists “hear” gravitational wave hum

A disk of hot gas swirls around a black hole in this illustration. The stream of gas stretching to the right is what remains of a star that was pulled apart by the black hole. (NASA/JPL-Caltech)

Visualizing star-munching black holes

Artist’s concept of a fallback disk around pulsar 4U 0142+61. (NASA/JPL-Caltech/R. Hurt (SSC))

A strange star with a solid surface

Radio transmission to the Milky way galaxy and star dusts in deep space (Getty Images)

No more "mystery of missing matter"

Emmanuel Fonseca - The Conversation

Universe, planets and lots of stars (Getty Images)

A new way of searching for alien life

Cody Fenwick - Alternet

Milky Way Galaxy (Getty Images)

A new atlas of the universe

This illustration made available by NASA shows the Kepler Space Telescope. (NASA via AP)

The most bizarre star in the galaxy

This image made available by NASA shows an artist's rendering of the Parker Solar Probe approaching the Sun. (AP/NASA)

NASA probe to "kiss the sun"

Keith A. Spencer

(X-ray: NASA/CXC/Univ of Toronto/M.Durant et al; Optical: DSS/Davide De Martin)

What we learn from kilonova explosions

Roy Kilgard - The Conversation

Artist's rendition of star KELT-9 and its orbiting planet KELT-9B. (Robert Hurt/NASA/JPL-Caltech)

Bring your sunglasses

Keith A. Spencer

Sarah Wolfe - GlobalPost

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