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Planets accompany most sun-like stars. The orbits of many are sufficiently close that they will be engulfed when their host stars ascend the giant branch. This Letter compares the power generated by ...

Imagine you are being given an important assignment by a taskmaster with a strange sense of humor. Your job is to study a forest, but you can only work according to a rather bizarre set of rules. For ...

A sweeping new study has pulled back the curtain on the chaotic early lives of young stars, revealing that stellar infancy is far more turbulent and variable than previously thought. Over ten ...

A thin gap has been discovered on the Hertzsprung-Russell Diagram (HRD), the most fundamental of all maps in stellar astronomy, a finding that provides new information about the interior structures of ...

A team of researchers from the Aryabhatta Research Institute of Observational Sciences (ARIES), has decoded the early lives ...

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IN connexion with the recent announcement that Prof. Ejnar Hertzsprung, professor of astrophysics in the University of Ley den, and assistant director of the Leyden Observatory, has been appointed ...