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A pair of white dwarfs, located just 150 light-years from Earth, appears doomed to die in a type 1a supernova that will shine ...
Astronomers have found a pair of chunky white dwarf stars—think of them as superdense stellar leftovers—spinning closely ...
"When I first spotted this system with a very high total mass on our galactic doorstep, I was immediately excited." ...
Researchers using NASA's Hubble Space Telescope have discovered the magnetar called SGR 0501+4516 is traversing our galaxy ...
The SMITHSONIAN ASTROPHYSICAL OBSERVATORY is a part of the Smithsonian Institution which, in conjunction with the Harvard ...
The James Webb Space Telescope has indeed captured a stunning image of two interacting galaxies, NGC 2936 and NGC 2937, resembling a penguin and an egg. WR 124 is a rare and luminous Wolf-Rayet star, ...
The event will be ten times brighter than our Moon in the night sky, but never fear, it won't happen for another 23 billion ...
Researchers link two ancient mass extinctions to nearby supernova explosions, which may have damaged Earth's atmosphere and triggered global biodiversity loss. A new study suggests that at least two o ...
University of Warwick astronomers have discovered an extremely rare, high-mass, compact binary star system only ~150 light ...
Astronomers have spotted signs that Betelgeuse, the closest supergiant star to Earth, could be about to explode as a ...