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Observations from NASA’s Juno spacecraft reveal that Jupiter’s strong magnetic field and the unique properties of its plasma ...
Astronomers have traced a mysterious blast of X-rays to a star that, like a cosmic action hero, just refused to die.
When white dwarfs—the hot remnants of stars like our sun—are orbited closely by another star, they sometimes steal mass away ...
A team led by the Italian National Institute for Astrophysics discovered the most distant known fossil galaxy — a relic of ...
Stars often die with a final burst of beauty. For the first time, astronomers have captured visual proof that a star can ...
Names are a strange thing in astronomy. Sometimes scientists come up with grandiose, simple name, like the Extremely Large ...
Only a few dozen of these short-lived binaries exist in the galaxy at a time, making the serendipitous find extremely ...
ENTs occur when stars that are at least three times as massive as the Sun pass so close to a supermassive black hole that its colossal gravity shreds them to pieces. The resulting string of matter ...
Long theorized but never observed, the first known “planet with a death wish” is described by Ilin and her colleagues in a ...