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Gaia Finds Thousands of Solar Twins, Tying the Sun to a Mass Migration Across the Milky Way

The pattern points to a central bar in formation that drove outward movement of Sun-like stars, offering a constraint on when the bar emerged.

Webb Links Protostellar Bursts to Crystal Formation and Outflows in EC 53

JWST Sees Protostar Forge Crystals in Outbursts, Then Hurl Them to Comet-Building Zones

New Images and Holiday Sky Guides Spotlight the Christmas Tree Cluster

Pleiades Recast as Core of a Vast 'Greater Pleiades' Stellar Family

ESO Telescope Reveals Bat-Shaped Stellar Nursery 10,000 Light-Years Away

Astronomers Detect Lowest-Mass Dark Object Yet via Subtle Gravitational Lens Signal

JWST Study Flags Four Possible ‘Dark Stars,’ Including One With Tentative Helium Signature

Astronomers Report Most Metal-Poor Star Yet From the Large Magellanic Cloud

Hubble’s New NGC 2775 Portrait Deepens the Mystery of a Hybrid Galaxy

Astronomers Confirm Rare Quadruple System Pairing Two Red Dwarfs With Two T-Type Brown Dwarfs

James Webb Uncovers Massive Early Galaxies and a Fading Exoplanet Candidate

Rare Jet-Driven Bubble Warps Protoplanetary Disk in WSB 52

Complex Organic Molecules Confirmed in Planet-Forming Disk of V883 Orionis

New Models Identify Webb’s Little Red Dots as Primordial Supermassive Stars

Mineral Condensation Captured in Planet-Forming Disk of Protostar HOPS-315

First Solids of Planet Formation Observed Around Young Star HOPS-315

Researchers Poised to Decode Cosmic Dawn’s 21-Centimeter Signal

Saturn-Sized Exoplanet Orbits Record-Low Mass Star, Challenging Formation Theories

Gaia Mission Reveals Ophion: A Star Family Scattering in Record Time