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Newborn planets look more like Smarties than spheres, study suggests
PA Media: Science via Yahoo News· 5 months agoWhen new planets form around stars they have flattened shapes, like Smarties, and are not spherical...
'Dragon cloud' holds clues about how the biggest stars in the galaxy are born
Space via Yahoo News· 1 year agoA massive, cold clump of material in the heart of the "Dragon cloud" is ready to form a single giant...
Star survives spaghettification by black hole
Space via Yahoo News· 1 year agoAn artist's impression of a star (foreground) being disrupted as it passes close to a supermassive black hole. A captured star has experienced multiple...
Scientists spot ‘cataclysmic star pair’ whirring around each other in spectacular dance
The Independent via Yahoo News· 2 years agoAstronomers just found one star system out of 1 billion with two stars locked in a tight, whirling...
Mysterious "blobs" inside Earth may be from collision with another planet
CBS News via Yahoo News· 8 months agoScientists proposed a novel idea on Wednesday that could solve two of the world's mysteries at once...
How baby planets are made: Planetary precursors revealed in stunning new space image
Salon via Yahoo News· 11 months agoAt the centre of this image is the young star V960 Mon ESO/ALMA (ESO/NAOJ/NRAO)/Weber et al. On...
Object mistaken as a galaxy is actually a black hole pointed directly at Earth
Live Science via Yahoo News· 1 year agoAn illustration of a hungry black hole, wrapped in a fiery orange accretion disk and shooting a beam...
Space mysteries: Why are there no gas moons?
Space via Yahoo News· 7 months agoIn our solar system we have rocky moons, ocean moons and frozen-ice moons, but there are no gas moons. Are we just unlucky not to have any gas moons, or...
Magnetic vortices may help feed supermassive black holes. Here's how
Space via Yahoo News· 2 days agoAn artist's impression of the spiraling magnetic wind around the supermassive black hole at the...
Jupiter may have been flat at one point, not spherical
The Independent via Yahoo News· 4 months agoLarge planets like Jupiter that form far away from their host stars may start forming as flattened...