Astronomers have discovered the first radio signals from a unique category of dying stars, called Type Ibn supernovae, and these signals offer new insights into how massive stars meet their demise.
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See a diamond planet, an exploding star and a black hole up close in a new immersive virtual reality experience
On the exoplanet Janssen, heat from its host star and immense pressure have made the world something of a hellscape, with the ...
Astronomers have for the first time seen the birth of a magnetar—a highly magnetized, spinning neutron star—and confirmed that it's the power source behind some of the brightest exploding stars in the ...
For decades, the Hubble Space Telescope has given scientists and the world in general jaw-dropping photos of what it sees in outer space. From planets to nebulae, the Hubble's photographs have had ...
Artist’s conception of a magnetar surrounded by an accretion disk that is wobbling, or precessing, because of the effects of general relativity. Some models of magnetars suggest that high-speed jets ...
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