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Photoshop tutorial showing a quick, effective way to make a cool, planetary nebula in deep space and a fiery explosion ...

The day before my thesis examination, my friend and radio astronomer Joe Callingham showed me an image we'd been awaiting for ...

The smoking gun of the creation of lithium in explosions on white dwarf stars may have been found, in a spike of gamma rays originating from a nova.

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With the aid of citizen scientists, astronomers have discovered an erupting cataclysmic variable star in a rarely seen evolutionary stage.