A new space telescope with Irish scientific involvement goes into operation this week on a mission to study how stars behave ...
A handful of extremely massive stars, each heavier than 1,000 Suns, may have sculpted the chemistry of the oldest star ...
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Heavy water detected in the disk of V883 Orionis; chemical signature reveals that some of the water formed before the star ...
The ESA's Euclid space telescope has been in space for just over a year, investigating some of the deepest mysteries of the ...
The James Webb Space Telescope may have discovered Population III stars, the universe's first generation of stars. They may ...
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