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Discovery of a young Large Magellanic Cloud star system with planet-forming disk

The Multi Unit Spectroscopic Explorer (MUSE) instrument on ESO’s Very Large Telescope captured imagery of young star system ...
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Indian astronomers discover rare triple star system with three suns, unraveling planetary formation

A team of Indian astronomers has uncovered a groundbreaking discovery about how planets might form in multi-star systems. Led by Liton Majumdar from the National Institute of Science Education and ...
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Day 18 of the 2024 Space Telescope Advent Calendar

Day 18 of the 2024 Space Telescope Advent Calendar: an energetic protostar. FS Tau is a multi-star system made up of FS Tau A, the bright starlike object near the middle of the image, and FS Tau B ...
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Four small rocky planets confirmed orbiting nearby Barnard's star

WASHINGTON, March 13 (Reuters) - Astronomers have identified a quartet of small rocky planets orbiting Barnard's star - one of our closest stellar neighbors - though they concluded that all of them ...