So, NGC 3293, tell me, how was your life as a youngster? ⭐ Astronomers are piecing together the chaotic nature of young stars. Using data from nasachandraxray and ESA’s Gaia mission, scientists evaluated how boisterous X-ray emissions from young stars could damage or destroy the atmospheres of planets orbiting them. Young star clusters, such as this one located about 8,300 light-years away in the Milky Way galaxy, may only be 11 million years old, but could pose a threat to planetary atmospheres in their own solar systems. Unruly magnetically active young stars disrupt the formation processes of planets in the disk of gas and dust that surround them by quickly clearing away their disks—halting the growth of planets. This activity also affects the habitability of the planets that emerge after the disk has disappeared. If a star is extremely active, then scientists predict it will blast planets in its system with a high-energy barrage of X-rays and ultraviolet light that could cause ...