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Barnard's Star is a small, dim star of the type that astronomers call red dwarfs. Consequently, even though it is one of the ...

Pictures may enliven us, but other data, such as information about magnetic fields, add a huge amount to our understanding of ...

This butterfly shaped nebula is the perfect target for the James Webb Space Telescope to learn more about star formation.