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Forever Young – Planet’s Orbit Around Star is Unbelievably Long
2MASS J2126 was believed to be a free-floating planet. A planet without a home star. But a team…
How Kepler Helped Spot a Planet-Size Storm on a Star
Stars and cloudy storms aren’t something you usually see in an article. Yet, here we are. Astronomers took…
A Star Meeting. When One Star Came Incredibly Close to Our Solar System
Proxima Centauri wasn’t always the closest star to our Sun. 70,000 years ago, another star grazed the outer reaches of our solar system. Scholz’s star sits 20 light years away today, but was a lot closer.
Star Date A Bit Younger. Planck Telescope Revises Birth of First Star
The European Space Agency’s Planck telescope has new information about the universe’s first stars. Scientists have thought star…
This Young Star Draws a Crowd. Swarm of Pluto-size Objects Surround Star
About 90 light-years from Earth is a star with quite a bit of company. Astronomers have discovered Pluto-size…
A Dusty Survey. NASA’s Hubble Probes Stars in Most Extensive Survey Yet
The most recent glimpses into the cosmos looked at the dusty debris disks around other stars. Most likely…