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James Webb Space Telescope peers into a dying star surrounded by mysterious buckyballs: 'The structures we're seeing now are breathtaking'
By Elizabeth Howell Published
The James Webb Space Telescope captured the first detailed images of planetary nebula Tc 1, revealing new details of what happens after a sun-like star dies.

This may be the daughter of one of our universe's 1st stars. Scientists call it an 'ancient immigrant'
By Keith Cooper Published
The star is escaping the Large Magellanic Cloud for the Milky Way.

Dozens of hidden star streams found in the outskirts of our Milky Way galaxy
By Sharmila Kuthunur Published
Astronomers discovered dozens of stellar streams in the Milky Way using Gaia data, offering new clues about galaxy formation and dark matter.

Pulsars to the extreme: Spinning dead stars found blasting radio signals from the 'edge of their magnetic reach'
By Robert Lea Published
Astronomers have discovered that rapidly spinning extreme dead stars or pulsars push it to the edge, blasting out radio signals from their extremities.

Scientists finally solve century-old mystery of star with unexpected X-ray emissions
By Robert Lea Published
Astronomers have used the XRISM X-ray spacecraft to discover a star being devoured by a stellar companion, solving a mystery that has baffled scientists for over 100 years.

Scientists find 2 'failed stars' that may have a second chance to shine bright — by getting together
By Robert Lea Published
"Failed star" brown dwarfs may get a second chance to shine by colliding and merging to birth a new star.

'At the edge of what we thought possible': Astronomers find extremely rare star from ancient universe
By Robert Lea Published
"Cosmic archaeologists" have discovered an iron-deficient second-generation star, which provides evidence of how ancient stars enriched their successors.

Deep underground, a telescope may soon detect ghosts of stars that died before Earth existed
By Pablo Martinez Mirave Published
With the help of an extremely powerful telescope deep underground in Japan, astronomers may be able to catch a glimpse of ghost particles from long-dead stars.

A state of matter last seen just after the Big Bang may exist inside neutron stars — and scientists think they can prove it
By Keith Cooper Published
As binary neutron stars spiral around each other to merge, their gravitational tidal forces distort each other's shape and structure, potentially revealing clues as to what lies within them.
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