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Composer Brian Eno took recordings of the acoustic waves given off by stars and sped them up into a haunting new arrangement.

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This Music Made by Stars Is Actually Extremely Beautiful

By Dan Robitzski

Scientists are closing in on a 13-billion-year-old signal from the "dark age" of the universe, an ancient era from before stars had formed.

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Scientists Hunting For Signs of the “Dark Age” Before Stars Formed

By Dan Robitzski

Scientists discovered an Earth-like exoplanet orbiting a star that resembles our Sun so nearly that it's almost like a mirror of our solar system.

Astronomers Discover “Mirror Image” of Our Solar System

By Dan Robitzski

New research reveals that a certain class of star gives off rhythmic pulsations that are similar to a person's heartbeat.

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Astronomers: Some Stars Have Something Akin to a Heartbeat

By Dan Robitzski

Astronomers found a rare, near-death experience play out in space where a black hole devoured the outer layers of a star but left the core intact.

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Black Hole Devours Outside of Star, Leaves Core Behind

By Dan Robitzski

New research on a bizarre nuclear reaction could explain why some stars explode like gigantic stellar thermonuclear bombs.

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Poison in the Hearts of Stars Can Make Them Explode

By Dan Robitzski

Astronomers have built a new model that could answer lingering questions about Betelgeuse — by positing that it was once two stars.

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Giant Star Betelgeuse May Have Eaten a Smaller Companion

By Kristin Houser

Space.com delves into the the history of research into the star, and finds that though scientists have made some progress, the mystery remains unexplained.

This Star Appears to Be Older Than the Universe

By Jon Christian

Astronomers just found the remains of a dead star, one of the oldest in the universe, buried inside of another still-living red giant.

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Scientists Just Found a Dead Star Lodged Inside Another Star

By Dan Robitzski

Astronomers just got their first complete observation of a star outside of our solar system erupting plasma out into the cosmos.

A Star Just Coughed Something Up and Scientists Want to Know Why

By Dan Robitzski

Small, densely-packed exoplanets are most likely to survive when their stars die. The findings give astronomers new places to look for new planets.

These Are the Planets That Survive the Deaths of Their Stars

By Dan Robitzski

Scientists suspect that one of the stars in the Big Dipper isn't native to the Milky Way. Instead, it likely got sucked up in a galactic collision,

This Star Drifted Into the Milky Way From Another Galaxy

By Dan Robitzski

Astronomers have discovered that one subregion of the Milky Way is far more efficient at star formation than the others — and they don't know why.

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Scientists Find Mysterious Star-Forming Factory In Milky Way

By Kristin Houser

Computer simulations can help spot new planets that were previously obscured by the death throes of old stars.

This Scientist Is Hunting for Planets That Orbit Dead Stars

By Dan Robitzski

In about 10 billion years, our sun will likely harden into a giant crystal orb — a fate that will be shared with many other white dwarf stars.

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In About 10 Billion Years, Our Sun Will Harden Into a Giant Crystal

By Jon Christian

Astronomers recently discovered a new technique that makes it much easier to detect and study how dark matter is distributed throughout the universe.

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Stars Torn From Galaxies Let Astronomers “See” Dark Matter

By Dan Robitzski

Using a new AI system, researchers within the infant scientific discipline asteroseismology can learn more about the subsurface activity of distant stars.

New AI Is Peering Into the Nuclear Cores of Distant Stars

By Dan Robitzski

A newly-discovered star in our galaxy is only 300 million years younger than the universe itself. it's older than anything scientists expected to find.

An Ancient Star Reveals Our Galaxy Is Older Than We Thought

By Dan Robitzski

Scientists Just Discovered Molecules that Could Tell us the Origins of Our Galaxy

Scientists Just Discovered Molecules that Could Tell us the Origins of Our Galaxy

Researchers Capture the Best Image of Any Star Ever Taken

Researchers Capture the Best Image of Any Star Ever Taken

New Study Shows Half the Atoms in Our Bodies Came From Beyond the Milky Way

New Study Shows Half the Atoms in Our Bodies Came From Beyond the Milky Way

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Stars Are Cooling Faster Than Predicted, and Axions May Be to Blame

By Cecille De Jesus

This Week, See All Five Naked Eye Planets in the Sky at Once. Here’s How

This Week, See All Five Naked Eye Planets in the Sky at Once. Here’s How

By Universe Today

What’s the Biggest Star in the Universe? Depends on Your Definition of “Big”

What’s the Biggest Star in the Universe? Depends on Your Definition of “Big”

By Todd Jaquith

A New Method Helps Us Better Measure Alien Worlds, and Possibly Locate Alien Life

A New Method Helps Us Better Measure Alien Worlds, and Possibly Locate Alien Life

By June Javelosa

Astronomers Discover Two Giant Stars in the Midst of Colliding

Astronomers Discover Two Giant Stars in the Midst of Colliding

By Miguel Santos

How Many Stars, Planets and Black Holes Are In the Milky Way Galaxy?

From Quarks to Quasars

How Many Stars, Planets and Black Holes Are In the Milky Way Galaxy?

By Jaime Trosper

The First Stars of the Universe Formed Masses as Bright as 100 Million Suns

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The First Stars of the Universe Formed Masses as Bright as 100 Million Suns

5 Weird Stars Found in Our Galaxy

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5 Weird Stars Found in Our Galaxy

How Long Would it Take to Travel to the Nearest Star?

How Long Would it Take to Travel to the Nearest Star?

Why Are We Made of ‘Starstuff’

From Quarks to Quasars

Why Are We Made of ‘Starstuff’

By Jaime Trosper