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Huge stars that collapse to create black holes may vomit out a lot more material during their lifespan than initially thought, according to a new study. The stars in question have masses more than 100 ...
This unprecedented view of the Bullet Cluster provided by the James Webb Space Telescope and the Chandra X-ray Observatory ...
Overall, the citizen scientists identified 10,001 eclipsing binary pairs. Of those, 7,936 were previously unknown.
New observations show a star that blew up in two separate bursts, confirming a long-suspected cosmic phenomenon called a ...
Planetariums were a hit with the public. Within decades, they had spread around the world – the first planetarium in the ...
Astronomers working with the European Southern Observatory’s (ESO) Very Large Telescope (VLT) have detected patterns showing ...
Galaxies have an overall internal motion called disk velocity. It’s how gas, dust, and stars move around the galactic center.
We have discovered two interstellar objects so far, ’Oumuamua and Comet 2I/Borisov. ’Oumuamua had no dust tail and a ...
For only the third time in history, astronomers have detected a new interstellar visitor — an object from another star — blitzing into our solar system.
Priscilla Diane Chapman Frisch, a University of Chicago Research Professor in Astronomy and Astrophysics and a world-leading ...
The shattered star at the center was once a white dwarf, a stellar ember no larger than Earth, yet almost as heavy as the Sun ...
Figuring out the ages of stars is fundamental to understanding many areas of astronomy—yet, it remains a challenge since ...