Could tiny stars a fraction the size of our solar system’s Sun have habitable planets orbiting them? A new study says it’s possible.
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Astronomers and stargazers around the world are excited to witness a rare event that only happens once every 80 years – a recurrent nova.
Astronomers have unpacked the mystery of how one star’s death created the nebula NGC3132 – never before seen in such detail.
In 5 billion years the Sun will collapse. A new discovery suggest some planets may still survive afterwards.
For the first time ever, astronomers have astrophysical evidence that Jupiter and many other planets will survive the death of the Sun.
One of Einstein’s weirder predictions is that massive, spinning objects exert a drag on space-time itself. Now an orbiting pair of unusual stars has revealed this effect in action.
Radio flare may be the result of a giant star orbiting some unusual object – a combination we have never seen before.
Science is full of surprises. While searching for planets orbiting nearby stars, researchers stumbled across the remains of a star that once outshone the Sun.
By studying old and dead stars, we can discover what will happen to our sun in the far, far future. And it won’t end with a big explosion.
Exoplanet discovery can help us work out how the Earth will end its days.
The ‘oldest known nova’ (a star explosion) in the sky was actually not a nova, astronomers show.
A study into a distant white dwarf could help us learn more about the future fate of the Earth – and it could be a violent one.
The discovery of a white dwarf star with hydrogen and oxygen in its atmosphere suggests water could be planted on stars and planets by bodies like asteroids.
Two white dwarfs found orbiting each other at the centre of a planetary nebula are now known to have enough mass that they will eventually trigger a special kind of supernova, according to research published…
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