The second release of data from Gaia star-mapping satellite, published in 2018, has been revolutionising…
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When NASA’s Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite launched into space in April 2018, it did so…
Galaxies grow by accumulating gas from their surroundings and converting it to stars, but the…
Nestled within this field of bright foreground stars lies ESO 495-21, a tiny galaxy with…
When you peer into the night sky, much of what you see is plasma, a…
It’s one of the greatest and longest-running mysteries surrounding, quite literally, our sun–why is its…
Chemical traces in the atmospheres of stars are being used to uncover new information about…
Star formation within interstellar clouds of gas and dust, so-called molecular clouds, proceeds very…
Brown dwarfs fill the “gap” between stars and the much smaller planets – two very…
This star-studded image shows us a portion of Messier 11, an open star cluster in…
