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NASA's James Webb Space Telescope will spend its first year looking for primordial galaxies, gold-forging explosions, and habitable planets
NASA is about to launch the world's most powerful space telescope. Webb's first year of science cou…
Morgan McFall-Johnsen
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Einstein thought we'd never detect ripples in space-time. But 100 years later, a remarkable experiment is proving him wrong over and over.
Einstein predicted that noise and vibrations on Earth would prevent us from ever being able to dete…
Morgan McFall-Johnsen
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Black hole or a neutron star — NASA puzzled over strange bright lights in the 'Fireworks' galaxy
The irony is that the observatory wasn’t really looking for either of them. The primar…
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Humans are made of gold — silver and platinum too
Billions and billions of years ago, before the world even existed, a collision between two neutron …
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'Vampire' stars could be using galactic henchmen to help feed on their companions
Type-Be stars, nicknamed "vampire" stars, are believed to strip the mass of a surrounding star. Now…
Hannah Getahun
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Scientists think they've observed a black hole swallowing a neutron star for the first time. It made ripples in space and time, as Einstein predicted.
Scott's team think the ripples in spacetime from this event, also known as gravitational waves, jus…
Morgan McFall-Johnsen
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NASA's James Webb telescope spotted two stars crashing into each other so violently it could have created gold in space
The James Webb Space Telescope detected a cosmic phenomenon known as a kilonova, which can create g…
Marianne Guenot
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Unknown objects at the heart of the Milky Way are beaming radio signals, then mysteriously disappearing
Radio waves bursting from the center of the Milky Way, then disappearing, might reveal a new type o…
Morgan McFall-Johnsen
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Newfound Super-Bright Neutron Star Baffles Scientists And Should Not Exist
Like black holes, neutron stars form as a star that is more massive than our sun collapses in on it…
Jessica Orwig
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This Neutron Star Spins Faster Than A Helicopter Rotor
As the pulsar whips around, it spews out a jet of charged particles that race along the pulsar's ro…
Randy Astaiza
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Fast radio bursts were once thought to be alien broadcasts. New research suggests the mysterious signals come from dead stars.
Magnetars are the super dense remains of dead stars. Their explosions of X-rays and gamma rays some…
Morgan McFall-Johnsen
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‘Zombie’ stars are coming back to life and scientists are on the hunt for more
Like everything in the Universe, stars are also supposed to die when they’re in the ‘supernova’ sta…
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NASA's new X-ray space telescope snapped its first image: a stunning exploding star
NASA's Imaging X-ray Polarimetry Explorer (IXPE) will study black holes and exploded stars. Its fir…
Morgan McFall-Johnsen
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An explosion 4 billion light years from Earth released more energy than the Sun can generate in its entire lifespan
Four billion light years away from Earth, there was an explosion so big that it generated more en…