Just a few hundred light years from Earth, a swollen red giant is quietly forcing astronomers to rethink how stars seed the galaxy with the raw materials for planets and life. New observations of the ...

Why Oxygen-Rich Stars Are a Problem That idea has always been harder to defend for oxygen-rich red giants. In these stars, dust is thought to form first as aluminium oxide, then grow into silicate ...

"Throwing a close companion into the mix could possibly wreak further havoc on the already complicated processes surrounding these stars." When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an ...