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Deadly giant stars swallow their companions
The star Betelgeuse 10 million years old with a diameter of more than 1.3 billion kilometers may have swallowed a companion mass with the mass of the Sun.
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The perfect spherical star is 5,000 light-years from Earth
German astronomers discovered a giant star with almost perfect spherical shape at 5,000 light-years from Earth.
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Discovering a strange ring around the super star Kappa Ori
Scientists have discovered a strange star ring around the super-star Kappa Ori.
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The terrible secret of giant red stars
After 90 years of research, scientists have discovered this mystery.
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The mystery of the star escapes the largest black hole in the Milky Way
Giant star named G2, after
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The sun has 'sisters'
In the center of the solar system, the giant star warming the Earth is not the only child born more than 4 billion years ago.
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Witness the giant star's death
The US Aeronautics and Space Agency (NASA) is focusing its attention on a star that may soon become a supernova more than 20,000 light years from Earth.
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Giant stars are created from 'star nursery'.
Newly born stars can grow up to 10-100 times the weight of the sun, if they are created in 'star nurseries' surrounded by many older stars.
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The moment the two star clusters become one
The new image from the Hubble Space Telescope of the US Space Agency (NASA) shows that the two cluster clusters seem to be in the early stages of consolidation into one.
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The mystery of giant stars: Do they explode?
According to a new project, some giant stars may not explode like supernovae. Instead, scientists estimate that they merely decay into black holes or if they explode, th…
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Discover the molecules needed for life around a super giant star
University of Arizona astronomers have discovered about 20 molecules with the necessary components for life in the environment around the super-giant star VY Canis Major…
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Video: Fly through a dead star's body
The Hubble Space Telescope of the US Aeronautics Agency (NASA) photographed the debris of a giant star that exploded 8,000 years ago.