W Hydrae had the same starting mass as our nearest star, but it’s billions of years more evolved
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Giant telescope array captures ageing star blowing smoky bubble
Astronomers have used ALMA to capture a strikingly beautiful view of a delicate bubble of expelled material around the exotic red star U Antliae
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Unexpected nitrogen discovered in ‘butterfly-shaped’ star cloud
The stellar formation area has a peculiar section of compounds
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Source of mysterious ‘fast radio burst’ revealed for the first time
“Now we can do real astrophysical analysis on the burst source and the galaxy that harbours it,” says James Cordes of Cornell University