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Beta Pictoris (centered; the rings and lines are image artifacts caused by the telescope) is a young nearby star with a disk of dust and at least two planets orbiting it. Credit: SIMBAD / DSS
A second planet for Beta Pictoris!
Phil Plait
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A very dense oasis in the brown dwarf desert
Phil Plait
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Our galaxy is warped!
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The ages of the Cepheid stars observed are mapped against a schematic of the Milky Way by color: Blue is youngest and red oldest; note how younger stars are closer to the center. The Sun’s position is marked by the yellow “sun” symbol. Credit: J. Skowron
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Astronomers are watching a star die in real time
Phil Plait
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NGC 6826 is a planetary nebula, a dying star whose light is causing previously expelled gas around it to glow.
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Astronomers find a rare 'super-Neptune' thanks to Einstein
Phil Plait
Jul 22, 2019
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Artist’s depiction of the planet OGLE-2012-BLG-0950Lb, which is intermediate in mass between Neptune and Saturn. The rings are just an artistic flourish; we don’t know if the planet has rings or not. Credit: NASA/JPL/GSFC/F. Reddy/C. Ranc
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Westerlund-1: A star cluster full of monsters
Phil Plait
Jun 14, 2019
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Westerlund-1, one of the most massive star clusters in the Milky Way. ALMA observations (red), superposed on a Hubble image, indicate several of the stars are enshrouded in warm dust. Credit: ESO/D. Fenech et al.; ALMA (ESO/NAOJ/NRAO)
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Star Trek vs. Red Dwarf: The Battle of Wolf 359
Phil Plait
Jun 6, 2019
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The Sun (left) is six times wider than Wolf 359 (middle, actually an image of the Sun in ultraviolet shrunk to the right scale), which is 60% wider than Jupiter (right).
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Downtown Sagittarius is a busy place
Phil Plait
May 27, 2019
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A Hubble image of a region of the sky in Sagittarius reveals thousands of stars of all different colors. Credit: ESA/Hubble & NASA
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The recurrent exploding nova R Aquarii: Unlucky Stars
Phil Plait
May 24, 2019
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A composite image of R Aquarii in optical light (red) and X-rays (blue); the jets emit X-rays due to the strong magnetic fields present. Credit: X-ray: NASA/CXC/SAO/R. Montez et al.; Optical: Adam Block/Mt. Lemmon SkyCenter/U. Arizona
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A black hole in a distant galaxy has been eating a star… for more than a *decade*!
Phil Plait
May 15, 2019
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Artwork depicting a black hole eating a star, the ferocious tides tearing the star apart. Credit: NASA/CXC/M.Weiss
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When the first stars in the Universe exploded, they *really* exploded
Phil Plait
May 10, 2019
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Artwork depicting beams of matter and energy tearing through a massive blue star, creating a hypernova and gamma-ray burst. Credit: NASA/Dana Berry/Skyworks Digital
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Gaia: The sky is littered with undigested galaxies
Phil Plait
Apr 22, 2019
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Stars in some of the stellar streams recently discovered using Gaia data superposed on a map of the galaxy. Credit: ESA/Gaia/DPAC
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Hubble gets crabby for its 29th anniversary
Phil Plait
Apr 19, 2019
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The Southern Crab nebula, a huge structure caused by the winds of a dying star. Credit: NASA, ESA, and STScI
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How can you measure a star's size? Wait for an asteroid to block it.
Phil Plait
Apr 17, 2019
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Artwork depicting an asteroid occulting a distant star, with the diffraction pattern of the star exaggerated for effect. Credit: DESY, Lucid Berlin
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Rocky worlds around red dwarfs may get blasted clean of water
Phil Plait
Jan 16, 2019
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Hubble/STIS images of AU Mic taken a few years apart show the motion of a blob moving outward from the star. Credit: NASA, ESA, J. Wisniewski (University of Oklahoma), C. Grady (Eureka Scientific), and G. Schneider (Steward Observatory)
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The sun is destined to turn into a gargantuan crystal ball after it dies
Elizabeth Rayne
Jan 11, 2019
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ESA image of a crystallized white dwarf
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