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"When I first spotted this system with a very high total mass on our galactic doorstep, I was immediately excited." ...
University of Warwick astronomers have discovered an extremely rare, high-mass, compact binary star system only ~150 light ...
These explosions happen when a white dwarf, which is already an ultra-dense star remnant, takes in too much mass.
When their end comes, the stars will explode in a blast making them around 200,000 times brighter than Jupiter does now.
compact binary star system only ~150 light years away. These two stars are on a collision course to explode as a type 1a supernova, appearing 10 times brighter than the moon in the night sky.
Skywatchers are scanning the night sky for an explosion that happened 3,000 years ago. A nova called T Coronae Borealis, ...
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Once an asteroid has been ejected from its usual path and is potentially heading our way, the first challenge ... other points of lights that are stars, except it's moving," says Kelly Fast ...
Nasa says there is a small chance a recently spotted asteroid could collide with the Moon. Studying it can inform our ...
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