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There’s a star that’s shaped like a teardrop.
HD 209458, nicknamed 'Osiris,' is being pulled into a teardrop shape by a nearby planet's gravity. The planet is so close that it's causing the star's outer layers to stretch toward it, creating a unique stellar shape never seen before.
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Some stars are cool enough to touch.
Brown dwarfs, failed stars that never got massive enough to sustain nuclear fusion, can have surface temperatures as...
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There’s a planet made largely of diamonds.
55 Cancri e, a super-Earth about 40 light-years away, is likely made largely of carbon under such extreme...
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The most powerful explosion ever observed could have melted lead from 110 light-years away.
GRB 080916C, a gamma-ray burst detected in 2008, released more energy in a few seconds than our Sun...