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The star is located in our Milky Way galaxy about 12,000 light-years from Earth in the direction of the constellation Aquila.

Meet the author: Dr. Phil Plait is an astronomer, author, and science communicator with a PhD in astronomy at the University of Virginia. He has written four books on astronomy and consulted on space ...

In May 2020, astronomers for the first time observed a planet getting swallowed by its host star. Based on the data at the ...

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This discovery offers a glimpse into the dramatic and explosive fates awaiting some of the universe's most fascinating ...

A light-year is the distance light travels in a year - 5.9 trillion miles ... of how close the two huge dwarf stars are to each other. They are about 25 times closer to each other than our solar ...

Astronomers have spotted two hefty white dwarf stars - highly compact stellar embers - orbiting close together that appear ...

According to new simulations, many, even most, planets get ejected from their star early in their history Star Trek ...

This colorful image of the Helix nebula may mirror what someday could become of our sun and our home planet. Released on ...