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How Many Stars Formed Together With the Sun in Our Stellar Nebula?

Even though our Sun is now a solitary star, it still has siblings somewhere in the Milky Way. Stars form…

9 months ago

Interstellar Oumuamua Was a Dark Hydrogen Iceberg

When Canadian astronomer Robert Weryk discovered `Oumuamua passing through our Solar System with the Pan-STARRS telescope, in October 2017, it…

3 years ago

Bright Jets Blast Out from a Newborn Star

Like very young humans, very young stars also tend to make a big mess out of the stuff around them…

11 years ago

SOFIA Reveals Star-Forming Region W40

[/caption] Around 1957 light years away, a dense molecular cloud resides beside an OB star cluster locked in a massive…

12 years ago

Did A Supernova Shape Our Solar System?

[/caption] Away in space some 4.57 billion years ago, in a galaxy yet to be called the Milky Way, a…

12 years ago

What is the Life Cycle of Stars?

Like all living beings, stars have a life cycle, which consists of birth, a lifespan characterized by growth and change,…

15 years ago