Anastasios (Andy) Tzanidakis was combing through old telescope data from 2020 when he found an otherwise boring star acting very strangely. The star, named Gaia20ehk, was about 11,000 light-years from ...

What happens when two planets collide? Astronomers have just observed the aftermath in real time around a distant star. The star Gaia20ehk, similar to our Sun, suddenly began to flicker starting in ...

While reviewing old telescopic data from 2020, astronomer Anastasios (Andy) Tzanidakis, a doctoral candidate in astronomy at the University of Washington, discovered a Sun-like star (Gaia20ehk) that ...

What does it look like two planets collide? This is what a recent study published in The Astrophysical Journal Letters hopes to address as a pair of researchers from the University of Washington ...

A researcher discovered the rare cosmic event by noticing strange dips in a star's brightness in old telescope data. The collision created a hot cloud of rocks and dust, which researchers detected ...

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A researcher discovered the rare cosmic event by noticing strange dips in a star's brightness in old telescope data. The collision created a hot cloud of rocks and dust, which researchers detected ...

Astronomers think they've glimpsed one of the rarest sights in space: two planets smashing into each other around a distant star. "It's incredible that various telescopes caught this impact in real ...

Two planets crashed into one another in a violent, chaotic collision that astronomers recently witnessed 11,000 light-years away from Earth. The rare cosmic event is not one scientists get to see ...