When you look up at the night sky, it might seem like all stars are basically the same, as just tiny points of light scattered across the dark. However, in reality, stars come in an astonishing range ...

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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Stars across the Hertzsprung–Russell diagram are known to emit X-rays, with only a few exceptions. In main-sequence solar-type and low-mass stars, the X-rays arise from a magnetically confined plasma ...

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