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A team of experts from NASA's Chandra Observatory has discovered that a planet is aging the star it orbits as it is weakening its magnetic field. The planet in question is WASP-18b, located about 330 light years from Earth.

The temperature of WISE J0304-2705, a peculiar celestial object similar to a planet, located between 33 and 55 light years away, could have reached that of some stars in its early evolutionary stages, while at present it is barely that of boiling water .

A team of astronomers from Haverford College (USA) has discovered the two furthest stars in our galaxy, on the outskirts of the Milky Way. The finding has been published in the Astrophysical Journal Letters.

On the eve of the 2014 World Cup and in the midst of the NBA finals, a study has just been published that could interest the coaches of both championships.

This is the first time in history that a team of astronomers has managed to observe the violent death of a massive Wolf-Rayet (WR) -like star. Specifically, this star is 360 million light years away in the constellation of Bootes and died due to an explosion known as supernova II b. The finding has been published in the journal Nature.

The WISE (Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer) and Spitzer space telescopes have made possible the discovery of what is undoubtedly now the coldest star in the universe, a brown dwarf located by astronomer Kevin Luhman of Penn State University (USA). ).

Stars seem to have a much simpler formation process than previously thought. An international team of scientists has developed a technique to determine the crucial details in star formation.

An autonomous telescope optimized for planet hunting. This is the Automated Planet Finder (APF), a 2.4-meter telescope located at the Lick Observatory on Mount Hamilton in California (USA) that is also the first robotic telescope dedicated to the search for habitable exoplanets such as the Kepler missions or DISH. It has already made its first discoveries since its commissioning in January 2014.