NASA telescope spots first alien ‘astrosphere’ around a sun-like star: Space photo of the week
A young, sun-like star reveals its protective sheath, or ‘astrosphere’, for the first time in this Chandra image. (Image credit: X-ray: NASA/CXC/Johns Hopkins Univ./C.M. Lisse et al.; Infrared: NASA/ESA/STIS; Optical: NSF/NoirLab/CTIO/DECaPS2) quick facts What it is: HD 61005, a sun-like star nicknamed the “Moth” Where it is: About 117 light-years away in the constellation PuppisContinue Reading












