Thermonuclear reaction rates power the models that explain how stars live, explode and create the elements. A new study co-authored by NC State faculty member Richard Longland provides a comprehensive ...

Stellar winds were supposed to be the straightforward conveyor belt that carried the raw ingredients of life from dying stars into interstellar space. Instead, new observations have exposed a gap ...

Stars and planets are inextricably linked. They form together and stars shape the fate of planets. Stars create the dusty protoplanetary disks that give birth to planets of all kinds. And when a star ...

Scientists observing the red giant star R Doradus have found that starlight isn’t strong enough to drive its stellar winds, overturning a long-standing theory. The dust grains around the star are ...

In these stars, dust is thought to form first as aluminium oxide, then grow into silicate grains that contain magnesium and silicon. Observations support the presence of these materials close to the ...

Long before humans walked the Earth, your solar system had a brush with two blazing blue stars that passed surprisingly close by. Nearly 4.4 million years ago, they swept past at a distance of only ...

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