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Stars have an innate twinkle – and now you can listen to it

Simulations of the rippling that occurs inside stars has made it possible to turn this innate twinkling into audio

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Young star V960 Mon with its long spiral arms

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Stunning photo of a young star hints how Jupiter-like planets form

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Two-faced star seems to have one hydrogen side and one helium side

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These three objects were originally identified as galaxies but they may actually be “dark stars”

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JWST may have spotted enormous stars powered by dark matter

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Odd gamma ray burst may be from a smash-up between two dead stars

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There seem to be some stars missing near the centre of the Milky Way

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Centre of our galaxy has a ‘zone of avoidance’ and we don’t know why

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The Milky Way could contain thousands of stars from another galaxy

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A star has been eating an orbiting planet for 85 years

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NASA Videograb: Type Ia Supernova.This animation shows the explosion of a white dwarf, an extremely dense remnant of a star that can no longer burn nuclear fuel at its core. In this "type Ia" supernova, white dwarf's gravity steals material away from a nearby stellar companion. When the white dwarf reaches an estimated 1.4 times the current mass of the Sun, it can no longer sustain its own weight, and blows up. Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech https://exoplanets.nasa.gov/resources/2172/type-ia-supernova/

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Fastest star in the galaxy clocked at 2285 kilometres per second

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Absolutely enormous asteroid belt discovered around a nearby star

Astronomers used the James Webb Space Telescope to spot strange asteroid belts around the nearby star Fomalhaut, along with evidence for at least three planets

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We’ve seen a star devouring a planet for the first time

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Remnants of the universe’s first stars may have been found

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One star being eaten by another will take revenge as a black hole

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