Astronomers have discovered that the sun had a close encounter with two blazingly hot massive stars around 4.4 million years ...
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Sun’s Ancient Encounter With Two Hot Stars Left A Legacy In The Solar System’s Neighborhood
The puzzling electric charge on clouds of interstellar gas can be explained by the passage of two hot, bright stars close to ...
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Ancient stars’ explosive history could protect Earth from cosmic radiation
A fascinating study, published in The Astrophysical Journal, has shed light on a mysterious chapter in our Solar System’s ...
The glowing region in this new image from the MPG/ESO 2.2-metre telescope is a reflection nebula known as IC 2631. These objects are clouds of cosmic dust that reflect light from a nearby star into ...
Researchers have found that stars in the early universe may have formed from 'fluffy' molecular clouds. Using the ALMA telescope to observe the Small Magellanic Cloud -- whose environment is similar ...
To understand how the universe was formed and how we got here, ancient stars are some of the best objects to study — yet astronomers know surprisingly little about the conditions in which they were ...
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