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By Will Dunham WASHINGTON (Reuters) -In May 2020, astronomers for the first time observed a planet getting swallowed by its ...
The James Webb Space Telescope has revisited a star that swallowed a planet and found that instead of the star subsuming the ...
When T CrB does explode, it will look like a very bright star in the night sky in the Corona Borealis constellation. People around the world will be able to track its brightness, providing better ...
We expect that [T Coronae Borealis] will erupt any night now, any month now,” Bradley Schaefer, a Louisiana State University ...
Initially mistaken for a star swallowing a planet, the James Webb Space Telescope revealed a dramatic collision. A planet, ...
When a star comes to the end of its life and dies, it can be an epic and destructive event, throwing out an explosion of heat and light — but it can create stunning new forms as well. A gorgeous new ...
The swirling, paint-like clouds in the darkness of space in this stunning image seem surreal, like a portal to another world ...
NASA’s autopsy of planet swallowed by a star gives astronomers a surprise - Planets are eaten by dying stars as they turn ...
The T Coronae Borealis, also known as T CrB, is a recurrent nova that bursts about every 80 years. Astronomers are pointing ...
Two orbiting stars comprise the Blaze Star. One of them is a red giant. The other is a dense, Earth-sized white dwarf.
Like earthquakes, ripples of gas on a star's surface — referred to as stellar quakes — offer clues about what lies beneath. And now, scientists have found a new way to probe these tremors in stars' ...