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fromwww.scientificamerican.com
2 days ago

Astronomers spot a young sun blowing bubbles inside the Milky Way

NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory captured the first image of a young sunlike star's astrosphere, a protective bubble of hot gas 120 light-years away, revealing how stellar winds shape these cosmic structures.
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fromThe Atlantic
2 months ago

Day 8 of the 2025 Space Telescope Advent Calendar: Sculpted by Stellar Winds

Hot, blue stars in NGC 346 sculpt cavities in the surrounding nebula through stellar winds, revealed by combined Hubble infrared, optical, and ultraviolet observations.
fromColossal
3 months ago

NASA's Webb Telescope Captures the Dust Clouds of Apep, Named for the Egyptian God of Chaos

"To find the holes the third star has cut like a knife through the dust, look for the central point of light and trace a V shape from about 10 o'clock to 2 o'clock," NASA says.
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fromArs Technica
7 months ago

Tuesday Telescope: A howling wolf in the night sky

Wolf-Rayet stars, first identified in the 1800s, are characterized by unusual emission lines and continuous high-velocity gas ejection.
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