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Has a Star Ever Been Observed to Form Outside of a Nebula?

To my knowledge, no. Stars need gas and dust (and probably a few other things, like magnetic fields) to…

Perhaps you are seeing the planet Venus, which would be in the W/SW sky setting right around 8PM in…

OGLE-TR-122b is the low-mass companion in an eclipsing binary system composed of a solar-type primary and a very low…

Hello David, I wrote a simple python script to calculate the azimuth and altitude of the five brightest stars…

It appears that you are looking for information regarding the distance and age of the star HD12377. One good…

Question: When I see a star that is, let’s say, 10 light years away; can I say that what…

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