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Extragalactic Planetary Nebula with Massive Progenitor Sheds Light on Stellar Evolution
Researchers investigate a planetary nebula in a star cluster in the Andromeda Galaxy — one of just a handful of known extragalactic planetary nebula–open cluster pairs.
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Dust Deal with It
Astrobites reports on why we might need a cosmic feather duster to see life on other worlds.
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When Bright Spots Go Dark
New modeling tests a common assumption that’s important for interpreting exoplanet spectra: that stars of all spectral types exhibit bright magnetized regions called faculae.