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The star that made us believe in aliens (and why we were wrong)

For years, one star made astronomers question everything they thought they knew about how starlight dims. It’s called KIC 8462852, […]

There’s a star, LP 40-365, that appears to be the strange survivor of a failed supernova. Astronomers believe it was […]

Did you know only about 1% of galaxies in our local universe belong to a rare category called “post-starburst” galaxies? […]

n 2018, a supermassive black hole destroyed a star that ventured too close — a normal tidal disruption event, the […]

In 2022, astronomers detected a flash of light coming from a distant galaxy: a star had been partially devoured by […]

Did you know there’s a planet doomed to disappear? WASP-12b orbits so close to its star that it completes a […]

Did you know there’s a planet where it probably rains glass? The exoplanet HD 189733 b, located about 64 light-years […]

Did you know there’s a star so massive it would swallow Jupiter? Meet Stephenson 2-18, a red supergiant located about […]

Did you know there’s a planet that might have oceans of lava? It’s called K2-141b, located about 200 light-years from […]

Fun fact: In December 2004, space telescopes detected something that briefly left them baffled: a gamma-ray flare so bright that, […]