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For the first time, astronomers have spotted a star that exploded not once, but twice. A new image of a roughly 300-year-old supernova provides visual evidence that some dying stars undergo a double ...
"Transitional millisecond pulsars are cosmic laboratories that help us understand how neutron stars evolve in binary systems." ...
The only place that's likely to happen is at the very center of our galaxy. And, for a while, there was an excess of ...
An international team of astronomers has uncovered new evidence to explain how pulsing remnants of exploded stars interact ...
Macquarie University astronomers have tracked an extreme planet's orbital decay, confirming it is spiraling toward its star in a cosmic death dance that could end in three possible ways.
When HIP 67522 b was discovered, it was the youngest known planet orbiting its star in under 10 days. Astronomers were using ...
The host star, HIP 67522, is slightly larger and cooler than our Sun. But unlike our middle-aged star, this one is just 17 ...
Scientists have discovered HIP 67522 b, a planet so close to its star that its orbit disturbs the star’s magnetic field, triggering violent stellar flares.
The newly discovered interstellar visitor is just the third of its kind and fascinates astronomers who hope to learn from it about galaxies far, far away.
Astronomers have spotted a new comet, moving on a trajectory that indicates that it whizzed into our solar system from interstellar space and is just passing through. It's only the third time ...