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New Scientist on MSNDid something just hit Saturn? Astronomers are racing to find outAround seven asteroids or comets are thought to hit Saturn ever year, but we have never spotted one in the act. Now, it seems ...
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Astronomy on MSN‘Strange binary’: Astronomers discover a pulsar and a helium star orbiting each otherOnly a few dozen of these short-lived binaries exist in the galaxy at a time, making the serendipitous find extremely ...
Long theorized but never observed, the first known “planet with a death wish” is described by Ilin and her colleagues in a ...
"This tangible evidence of a double detonation not only contributes towards solving a long-standing mystery, but also offers ...
Astronomers have finally caught a dying star in space going out with a bang — and then another bang. The new photographic ...
The explosion of a star, called a supernova, is an immensely violent event. It usually involves a star more than eight times ...
New observations show a star that blew up in two separate bursts, confirming a long-suspected cosmic phenomenon called a ...
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Astronomy on MSNAstronomers race to learn more about third interstellar visitorNewfound interstellar object 3I/ATLAS may be carrying pristine material from early in the Milky Way’s star-forming history.
Scientists have observed a new type of black hole that is too heavy to have been born from a star but still too slim to … The ...
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