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The quiet fear of losing your home is usually a human story, but in the sky, entire worlds may face something similar. As stars age and swell, the space around them shifts in ways that can destroy ...
Solar storms can trigger auroras on Earth. This star’s explosion could destroy a planet’s atmosphere
A coronal mass ejection releases from the left side of the sun in May 2024. - SOHO (ESA & NASA)/NASA/SDO/AIA/JHelioviewer/D. Müller For the first time, astronomers ...
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Aging stars destroy their planets more often than we thought: What does this mean for Earth?
Using NASA's Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS), astronomers have discovered that aging stars in their so-called "red giant" phase are even more destructive to their orbiting planets than ...
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