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The map, spanning 4,000 light-years from the sun in all directions, combines a chart of space dust with the effects of a rare type of young, hot star.

One of the best places to study stars is inside "open clusters," which are groups of stars that formed together from the same material and are bound together through gravity. Subscribe to our ...

Life in the universe could depend on the vicissitudes of two wildly different types of stars. A team of astronomers recently used the venerable Hubble Space Telescope to study the light of 495 stars — ...

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A study of more than 26,000 white dwarf stars has confirmed a long-predicted but elusive effect in these ultra-dense, dying stars: Hotter white dwarfs are slightly puffier than cooler ones, even when ...

When the ESA launched the Gaia spacecraft in 2013, it didn't generate the same fanfare as the launch of other missions like the JWST, or first light from telescopes like the Vera Rubin Observatory.