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With unusually powerful magnetic fields, these stars seem to get a boost when their cores start to drift apart. Thus, they may not be the ideal hosts for habitable exoplanets.

The burnt-out star has one side composed of hydrogen and the other composed of helium. Astronomers have never seen anything like it.

Neutron stars are created when massive stars reach the ends of their lives and are composed of the densest matter in the known universe.

13.5-billion-year-old clouds are poor in iron, suggesting they precede the dissemination of heavier elements.

The white dwarf is the dead core of a star that burned out a billion years ago.

Pulsars are cosmic lighthouses that when seen from Earth appear to be flickering stars, but actually consist of exotic stellar remnants called neutron stars.

Astronomers have discovered a stellar binary with what appears to be an extremely short orbit of 51 minutes. The system seems to be a “cataclysmic variable,” in which a star like our sun tightly orbits a white dwarf.

Stars in their "young years" are a major challenge for science

Not only humans try to look younger than they really are – stars do, too. This is what an international team of astronomers investigates in their paper that was just published in Nature Astronomy. 

The cause of Earth’s deepest earthquakes has been a mystery to science for more than a century, but a team of Carnegie scientists may have cracked the case. New research published provides evidence that fluids play a key role in deep-focus earthquakes—which occur between 300 and 700 kilometers below the planet’s surface. The research team includes Carnegie scientists Steven