Some ‘dead’ stars hide the heavenly fountain of youth beneath their surfaces
by White dwarfs are the stars that will be left behind when “stars like the sun fade,” smashing into space in cooling ash. Recent observations have …
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Where is the world’s sulfur missing?
Astronomers may have solved the mystery of why the death shrouds of dead stars appear to lack sulfur, an element once called “brimstone” and associated …
Sometimes the world’s most extreme stars ‘glitch’ – we may now know why
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 …