Aging stars can completely destroy their planets. When a star reaches the end of its life on the main sequence, it goes ...

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You live in a galaxy packed with black holes that never announce themselves. They do not blaze in X-rays or glow with stolen gas. They hide. Astronomers find them by watching the stars that dance ...

Together, the observations and simulations show that dust grains alone cannot explain how winds escape from oxygen-rich red giant stars like R Doradus. At this late stage of stellar life, stars ...