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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.
Skywatchers are scanning the night sky for an explosion that happened 3,000 years ago. A nova called T Coronae Borealis, ...
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.
See the pint-sized Pink Moon this week.
NASA's SPHEREx (short for Spectro-Photometer for the History of the Universe, Epoch of Reionization and Ices Explorer) has ...
Over the past decade, scientists have detected a puzzling phenomenon: radio pulses coming from within our Milky Way galaxy ... long radio bursts from this binary star system are just the beginning ...