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Astronomers have, for the first time, witnessed a star meeting a dramatic end by exploding twice. In a study published in ...
Scientists have discovered HIP 67522 b, a planet so close to its star that its orbit disturbs the star’s magnetic field, ...
The star is part of an eruptive two-star system called T Coronae Borealis, located 3,000 light years away. Every 80 years or so, one of the stars emits a powerful cosmic burst of energy called a nova.
A cataclysmic variable star isn’t technically a single object. Instead, it’s a compact binary system composed of a white ...
Citizen scientists using the Kilonova Seekers platform spotted a stellar flash 2,500 times brighter than before, allowing ...
New observations show a star that blew up in two separate bursts, confirming a long-suspected cosmic phenomenon called a ...
In an extraordinary celestial coincidence, two "new stars" —scientifically known as novae —are currently visible to the naked ...
The Hubble telescope shows stars exploding near a giant plasma beam shooting out from a black hole. The beam, named M87 jet, is 3,000 light years long and is moving through space at almost the ...
The Hubble telescope shows stars exploding near a giant plasma beam shooting out from a black hole. The beam, named M87 jet, is 3,000 light years long and is moving through space at almost the ...
The Hubble telescope shows stars exploding near a giant plasma beam shooting out from a black hole. The beam, named M87 jet, is 3,000 light years long and is moving through space at almost the ...