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The explosion of a star, called a supernova, is an immensely violent event. It usually involves a star more than eight times ...
Amazon's massive Prime Day 2025 sale includes budget movie box sets, new steelbooks, complete TV series, and B2G1 free 4K Blu ...
When white dwarfs—the hot remnants of stars like our sun—are orbited closely by another star, they sometimes steal mass away ...
Stars often die with a final burst of beauty. For the first time, astronomers have captured visual proof that a star can ...
Enrique Rico Ortega and Sofia Vallecorsa explain how quantum computing will allow physicists to model complex dynamics, from ...
Only a few dozen of these short-lived binaries exist in the galaxy at a time, making the serendipitous find extremely ...
Astronomers working with the European Southern Observatory's (ESO) Very Large Telescope (VLT) have detected patterns showing ...
For years, scientists have suspected that stars can meet their doom by a one-two punch of back-to-back explosions — but ...
In a groundbreaking cosmic revelation, astronomers have captured the first visual evidence of a dying star erupting in a rare ...
Astronomers had long been suspecting that some stars do meet their end of life with a dual detonation and new images prove ...