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The majority of stars in the universe will become luminous enough to blast surrounding asteroids into successively smaller fragments using their light alone, according to a University of ÌÇÐÄTV astronomer.

When it comes to the biggest and brightest explosions seen in the Universe, University of ÌÇÐÄTV astronomers have found that it takes two stars to make a gamma-ray burst.

The first evidence of a giant planet orbiting a dead white dwarf star has been found in the form of a disc of gas formed from its evaporating atmosphere.

Using asteroseismology, a team including an astronomer from the University of ÌÇÐÄTV, revised the parameters for two red-giant stars known to host exoplanets, and for one of them found that the planet should not exist in its current location based on current theories.

A leading-edge new telescope instrument, designed and built by an international collaboration including the University of ÌÇÐÄTV, has today (28 October) aimed its 5,000 fibre-optic eyes at the night sky for the first time.

Astronomers are planning to hunt for cores of exoplanets around white dwarf stars by ‘tuning in’ to the radio waves that they emit.