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This Star Might be Orbiting a Strange "Boson Star" - Universe Today

A team of astronomers has claimed to find a boson star, a star composed entirely of dark matter.

Strange star system may hold first evidence of an ultra-rare 'dark ...

In a distant star system, a sunlike star orbits an invisible object that may be the first example of a 'boson star' made of dark matter, new research suggests.

This Star Might be Orbiting a Strange "Boson Star" - Ground News

A team of astronomers has claimed that observations of a sun-like star orbiting a small black hole might actually be the indication of something far more ...

Scientists baffled by 'unique object of uncertain nature' orbiting a star

Astronomers are investigating something unusual happening around a binary star system called TIC 400799224, part of the TESS Input Catalog.

The Webb Telescope Found A Planet Orbiting A Star 35 Light Years ...

Recent data from the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) suggests that a planet orbiting a small, red star 35 light years away may have a ...

WIYN 3.5-meter Telescope at Kitt Peak Discovers Extremely Strange ...

It's expected that its initial highly eccentric orbit and extremely close approach to its host star will 'circularize' the planet's orbit, since ...

3 Strange Worlds Circling A Cool Star Might Be Prime Spots ... - WYSO

The planets orbit close to an unusually small, reddish star that's about one-eighth the size of our sun and is far cooler, researchers report in ...

Strange planets could be forming inside dying stars - New Scientist

A planet orbiting extremely close to a white dwarf may have formed inside its star – this could be the origin of some of the most promising ...

Scientists Now Believe a Star May Have Come Closer to Earth than ...

... might explain the unusual orbits of certain objects at the edge of our Solar System. The star ... the star's gravity could explain the ...

Strange alien planet has weird orbit and scorching temperatures

"Because the exoplanet WASP-189b is so close to its star, its dayside is so bright that we can even measure the 'missing' light when the planet ...

Discovery Alert: The Planet that Shouldn't Be There - Exoplanets

Key facts: Planet 8 Ursae Minoris b orbits a star some 530 light years away that is in its death throes. A swollen red giant, the star would ...

Bizarre object hotter than the sun is orbiting a distant star at ...

A weird, super-hot celestial body is breaking records and challenging astronomers' understanding of the boundary between stars and planets.

A pair of stars about 360 light years away experienced 28 dips in ...

The weirdest stars have astronomers baffled - A pair of stars about 360 light years away experienced 28 dips in their light over the course of ...

Strange Orbits in the Solar System Explained With a Star Flyby

This hypothesis seems to me much more likely than an elusive Planet 9. But I never suspected that a trajectory of such a fly-by star could ...

Bizarre Exoplanets Orbiting Binary Stars May Have Strangely ...

A new study out of the National Radio Astronomy Observatory (NRAO) suggests that such exotic exoplanet worlds orbiting multiple stars may exist in misaligned ...

5 planets found in unusual rhythmic dance around a star 200 light ...

This artist's impression shows a view of the surface of the planet Proxima b orbiting the red dwarf star Proxima Centauri, the closest star to ...

Scientists just discovered an "impossible planet" orbiting too close to ...

"We know that there are two other stars orbiting this white dwarf very far away. Maybe they could have exerted some influence on this planet ...

Stars' strange orbits may offer clues on dark matter - Big Think

As the star passes through the dark matter, gravitational forces “stir up” the dark matter, which can transfer energy from the star to the dark ...

3 Strange Worlds Circling A Cool Star Might Be Prime Spots ... - NPR

3 Strange Worlds Circling A Cool Star Might Be Prime Spots To Support Life ... ROBERT SIEGEL, HOST: Scientists have discovered three new planets ...

Tiny star found harbouring a huge planet that shouldn't exist

An enormous planet orbiting a tiny star may break our ideas about planet formation. ... Weird, enormous planets may be stolen from stars in ...