Chandra X-ray Telescope observations of sun-like star HD 61005 has revealed an "astrosphere." Credit: NASA/CXC/A. Hobart ...

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 ...

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 ...

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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 ...