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R Aquarii system

Watch a zombie star feed on its companion

Astronomers find a mini black hole

Gliese 229 system

Astronomers find out the first known brown dwarf is actually twins

Jet from M87* supermassive black hole

Exotic Objects, Stars

Is this black hole jet making stars explode?

Illustration of Betelgeuse and its possible low-mass companion

Betelgeuse may have a Betelbuddy

stream of plasma from the Sun

Solar System, Stars

Is AI the key to predicting solar storms?

Artist's impression of Barnard b

Discovery of a tiny exoplanet sheds new light on a very old star

The blue reflection nebula M78 lies about 1,600 light-years away in Orion. It is a cloud of interstellar gas and dust that owes its luminosity to embedded, bright, blue, early B-type stars — making it the brightest diffuse reflection nebula in the Orion B molecular cloud complex.

Deep-Sky Objects

Deep-sky objects to target as a novice observer

Albireo (Beta [β] Cygni) is a classic example of a double star with contrasting colors.

Observing, Stars

What gives stars their colors?

’Starry Night’ captures the turbulent physics of why stars twinkle

ALMA images of R Doradus

ALMA reveals a star’s surface in unprecedented detail

Solar System, Stars

Waves may be heating the solar wind — and two spacecraft caught them in action