Astronomers have seen analogous bubbles around hot stars, dying stars and baby stars — but not sunlike stars. “We don’t see them around … average, everyday stars that might host life,” said astronomer ...

Astronomers have used NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory to identify for the very first time a bubble of hot gas, called an astrosphere, around a juvenile star named HD 61005. This discovery gives us an ...

Chandra X-ray Telescope observations of sun-like star HD 61005 has revealed an "astrosphere." Credit: NASA/CXC/A. Hobart US strikes Iranian site after Gulf missile attacks Watch what happens when a ...

The star, HD 61005, is about 120 light-years from Earth. For the first time, astronomers have caught a much younger version of the Sun creating a giant bubble in space. The discovery was made using ...

For the first time, a much younger version of the sun has been caught red-handed blowing bubbles in the galaxy by astronomers using NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory. The bubble—called an "astrosphere" ...

The sun orbits the center of the Milky Way wrapped in a protective bubble of its own making, dubbed the heliosphere. And for the first time, astronomers have spotted a similar protective bubble ...

Astronomers have spotted something unusual. A star, much like our own Sun when it was young, is blowing a bubble through space. The star, called HD 61005, lies about 120 light-years from Earth. It ...