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Sweeping winds of vaporized metals have been found in a massive cloud that dimmed the light of a star for nearly nine months.

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Astronomers have, for the first time, captured a detailed snapshot of planetary systems in an era long shrouded in mystery.

Astronomers have long searched for life within a rather narrow ring around a star, the "habitable zone," where a planet ...

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A decade of observations of four planets around the young planetary system V1298 Tau revealed a rare, long-sought missing link in planet formation.