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There’s a star that’s trapped inside a giant crystal.
At the center of the Cat's Eye Nebula, astronomers have discovered a dying star surrounded by a crystalline shell of carbon. As the star sheds its outer layers, the carbon crystallizes in a process similar to diamond formation.
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A spoonful of a white dwarf star would weigh several tons.
White dwarfs are the remnants of stars like our Sun after they've exhausted their nuclear fuel. They're incredibly...
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Some planets orbit their stars in figure-eight patterns.
In binary star systems, planets can follow complex figure-eight orbital patterns due to the gravitational influence of both...
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Jupiter’s moon Io has lakes of liquid sulfur.
Due to intense tidal heating from Jupiter, Io has lakes of molten sulfur on its surface that can...