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The gold that makes up the ring on your ring, the jewelry, and the uranium used as fuel in nuclear power plants are believed to …
Astronomers have developed a new way to measure cosmic distances by listening to the frequencies of the “music” played by vibrating stars that act together …
Illustration of a neutron star with bursts of material erupting. Scientists may finally understand the dynamics of neutron star “glitches” that occur when these dead …
Space-based NASA Chandra X-ray Observatory after watching a “mess” of spider pulsars devouring their companion stars in the globular cluster Omega Centauri. These data could …
Artist’s rendering of a star with a disk around it (a Be-type “vampire” star; foreground) and its companion star with its outer parts removed (background).ESO/L. …
Artist’s rendering of a star with a disk around it (a Be-type “vampire” star; foreground) and its companion star with its outer parts removed (background).ESO/L. …
A river of hydrogen gas flows out of the Large and Small Magellanic Clouds, two dwarf galaxies located on the edge of the Milky Way. …
The Fermi gamma-ray space telescope has discovered about 300 fast-spinning neutron stars. Each newly discovered object sweeps two beams of radiation across the universe like …
Some of the largest and most intense regions of star formation are found in the smallest galaxies, and scientists believe this is because stars reaching …
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