A team of German astronomers, led by Professor Klaus Werner of the University of Tübingen, have discovered a strange new type of star covered in the by-product of helium burning. It is possible that ...

(CNN) — A decade-long survey of the night sky has revealed a mysterious new type of star astronomers are referring to as an “old smoker.” These previously hidden stellar objects are aging, giant stars ...

Astronomers using the Swiss 1.2-metre Euler telescope at ESO’s La Silla Observatory in Chile have found a new type of variable star. The discovery was based on the detection of very tiny changes in ...

Astronomers have discovered a completely new type of star near the center of our galaxy that have the weird habit of seeming to fade away before suddenly coming to life to blow big bursts of smoke ...

“Astronomers discover a completely unknown object floating around in space” is a common news theme, but it’s fun every time. The latest is a brand new type of star – ancient red giants the team has ...

After a decade spent monitoring the sky, an international team of astronomers have discovered a nursery of newborn stars, along with an entirely new type of elder star that has been hidden at the ...

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