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Measuring all the light in the Universe. All of it. Ever.
Phil Plait

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The Sun's long-lost sibling found in our own backyard
Phil Plait
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The Sun may have been born in an open cluster, a loose collection of stars that has since dissipated, scattering the stars. This image shows NGC 299, an open cluster in a satellite galaxy to our Milky Way. Credit: ESA/Hubble & NASA
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Big news: A planet for Barnard’s Star… the fourth closest star to our own!
Phil Plait
Nov 15, 2018
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Artwork of a super-Earth, Barnard’s Star b, orbiting its red dwarf host star. Credit: ESO/M. Kornmesser
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Young red dwarfs throw mean tantrums. A lot.
Phil Plait
Oct 25, 2018
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Artist depiction of a young red dwarf star blasting out flares that erode the atmosphere of a nearby planet. Credit: NASA, ESA, and D. Player (STScI)
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A sense of scale: VFX artist shows you how big the biggest stars are
Phil Plait
Oct 24, 2018
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Stars are big. Credit: Wren Weichman, from the video
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Science Behind the Fiction: How a star is really born
Cassidy Ward
Oct 10, 2018
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A Star Is Born real
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Long-standing astronomical mystery solved! Albireo is NOT a binary star
Phil Plait
Aug 15, 2018
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The double star (and not binary) Albireo, or Beta Cygni, the color difference obvious. Credit: Tom Wildoner
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Astronomers watch the aftermath of a star ripped apart by a middleweight black hole
Phil Plait
Jun 27, 2018
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Artwork_blackhole_starArtist’s conception of a star getting eaten by a black hole, with material ripped from the falling down into the black hole and forming a hot disk. Credit: ESA, NASA and Felix Mirabel
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Astronomers watch the aftermath of a star ripped apart by a huge black hole
Phil Plait
Jun 19, 2018
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Artwork depicting a star torn apart by a black hole in Arp 299, with a beam of material blasting away. Credit: Sophia Dagnello, NRAO/AUI/NSF; NASA, STScI
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Get ready: A star will pass pretty close to the Sun in just 1.3 million years
Phil Plait
Jun 4, 2018
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Gleise 710 (center), an orange dwarf, will one day become the closest star to our Sun. Credit: SIMBAD / DSS
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First light for TESS!
Phil Plait
May 21, 2018
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A chunk of sky near Beta Centauri (the bright star near the bottom) seen by the TESS spacecraft in its very first image. Credit: NASA / MIT / TESS
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A glimpse of oxygen at the edge of space reveals stars born just after the Universe itself
Phil Plait
May 17, 2018
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The galaxy cluster MACSJ1149.5+223 lies in the foreground and magnifies the image of the much more distant JD1, a galaxy 13.3 billion light years away. Inset is the observation of oxygen from the galaxy.
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My god. It *is* full of stars.
Phil Plait
May 7, 2018
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The galactic center, a crowded metropolis of stars and dust. Credit: ESO/VVV Survey/D. Minniti & Acknowledgement: Ignacio Toledo
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The Sun's motion, reflected in the galaxy
Phil Plait
Apr 27, 2018
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The entire sky — 1.7 billion stars’ worth — mapped by Gaia and displayed using color information also obtained by the satellite. You can see we live in a flat galaxy with a large central bulge, festooned with dark filaments of dust. Credit: Gaia/DPAC/ESA
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Second Gaia star chart has been released, providing the most comprehensive view of the galaxy to date
Blair Marnell
Apr 25, 2018
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ESA Gaia
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Are we overlooking a lot of nearby brown dwarfs?
Phil Plait
Apr 17, 2018
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Artist drawing of a solitary brown dwarf in space, glowing feebly in visible light. Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech
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