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An international team, including astronomers from Keele University, has performed a unique cosmic test to measure the mass of ...
The European Southern Observatory’s Very Large Telescope has detected "a scar imprinted on the surface" of white dwarf star ...
Stars often die with a final burst of beauty. For the first time, astronomers have captured visual proof that a star can ...
A pair of stars orbiting one another has been found near the supermassive black hole Sagittarius A* using the European ...
Only a few dozen of these short-lived binaries exist in the galaxy at a time, making the serendipitous find extremely ...
By studying faint vibrations within stars, scientists using the Keck Planet Finder have discovered internal features that ...
Researchers from the Xinjiang Astronomical Observatory (XAO) of the Chinese Academy of Sciences have made significant ...
Hawaii’s significant contribution to science, particularly those discoveries made through telescope installations on two ...
The explosion of a star, called a supernova, is an immensely violent event. It usually involves a star more than eight times ...
In the constellation Perseus the Hero, the star Algol is fun to watch due to its regular changes in brightness. And you don’t ...
Overall, the citizen scientists identified 10,001 eclipsing binary pairs. Of those, 7,936 were previously unknown.
"This tangible evidence of a double detonation not only contributes towards solving a long-standing mystery, but also offers a visual spectacle." ...