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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 ...
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 ...
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 ...