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![An illustration of an extremely bright, white planet orbiting a star at breakneck speed](https://cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net/tzZzhUieRB2hshw458QVzf-320-80.jpg)
Mirror-like exoplanet that 'shouldn't exist' is the shiniest world ever discovered
By Harry Baker published
A distant planet named LTT9779 b reflects 80% of its star's light, making the strange world with metal clouds the biggest known "mirror" in the universe.
![A burnign red star emerges from a green fog of gas in a dark and distant galaxy](https://cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net/PstvBVoq5AqudTax7iNYyi-320-80.jpg)
Scientists discover the fastest stars ever seen in the Milky Way
By Ben Turner published
Astronomers discovered a new population of ultra-fast-moving stars, including the fastest 'runaway' star ever seen in our galaxy.
![A wall of green was blooms at the center of a colorful supernova remnant](https://cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net/ERjo2iy2gUJkp3jfYhm7aX-320-80.jpg)
Are we really all made of stars?
By Remy Melina last updated
Carl Sagan famously proclaimed that humans are 'made of star stuff'. Here's what he meant — and why it's true.
![An illustration of a bright blue white dwarf star, revealing a hard crystalline core](https://cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net/bmu5ooZaspcxjtpYi3DkNY-320-80.png)
This collapsed star is turning into a gigantic diamond before our eyes
By Stephanie Pappas published
Scientists have found a white dwarf that is cooling and crystallizing into a giant diamond.
![a star blasting multi-colored jets of energy out of its left and right side against a background of dark space](https://cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net/5AY43wZEkUrXhawgYXcz5S-320-80.jpg)
Dying stars build humongous 'cocoons' that shake the fabric of space-time
By Briley Lewis published
New simulations show that dying stars release enormous "cocoons" of gas that may rattle with space-time ripples called gravitational waves.
![A rocky planet orbits a small, red star known as a red dwarf -- the most common type of star in the galaxy.](https://cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net/Ff66F3mWBR5qc49qsTyYn7-320-80.jpg)
There may be hundreds of millions of habitable planets in the Milky Way, new study suggests
By Briley Lewis published
A new analysis of Kepler data shows that one-third of small stars called M dwarfs may have the potential to host life.
![A spiral galaxy in deep space.](https://cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net/UAoLMvBQCZHJGaJyERetiH-320-80.jpg)
Watch the biggest supernova in 10 years explode tonight on this free telescope livestream
By Robert Lea published
A newly discovered supernova can be watched as it develops in real-time online and for free. The livestream will begin at 6:30 p.m. EDT (2230 GMT) on Friday, May 26.
![A bright collective of millions of stars, scattered around the edges bu combining to look like one big star at the center](https://cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net/8cvSKUYZChMTN69YscwpbZ-320-80.jpg)
James Webb Telescope finds evidence of 'celestial monster' stars the size of 10,000 suns lurking at the dawn of time
By Ben Turner published
The James Webb Space Telescope has found key chemical fingerprints of supermassive stars just 440 million years after the Big Bang.
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