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The Helix Nebula and the cosmic recycling of stellar material.
A dying star offers a rare glimpse of how the universe recycles its raw materials
Wed, 08/12/2026
Astronomers have captured an unprecedented image of a cosmic recycling project in progress — fragments of a dying star being busted up, stripped, and absorbed into...
Third time’s the charm for a row of faint galaxies without dark matter
Tue, 06/16/2026
Astronomers have followed a faint, cosmic trail of gas to a third galaxy that has no dark matter. In a new study in The Astrophysical Journal, a team of Yale astronomers...
MOTHRA has its eyes - all 1,140 of them - focused on the ‘cosmic web’
Wed, 03/11/2026
The new telescope, under construction in Chile, may help astronomers observe the “web” of dark matter and gas connecting galaxies. Make way for MOTHRA...
Artist’s impression of WR 112, a binary system containing a massive, evolved Wolf-Rayet star and an OB-type companion. As their stellar winds collide, dust forms and spirals outward, consisting mostly of extremely tiny, nanometer-sized grains along with a secondary population about 100 times larger. Credit: NSF/AUI/NSF NRAO/M. Weiss.
A study in stardust: Massive binary stars emit tiny carbon particles
Thu, 02/26/2026
Yale junior Donglin Wu leads a new study showing that some of the biggest stars in the universe shed some of the smallest dust particles. It’s fitting that Yale...
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