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"Very massive stars are like the 'rock stars' of the universe — they are powerful, and they live fast and die young." ...
Astronomers peering into the Large Magellanic Cloud have caught a white-dwarf crime scene in the act of giving up its secrets ...
By studying faint vibrations within stars, scientists using the Keck Planet Finder have discovered internal features that ...
Astronomers studying the remnant SNR 0509-67.5 have finally caught a white dwarf in the act of a rare “double-detonation” supernova, where an initial helium blast on the star’s surface triggers a ...
For the first time, astronomers have obtained visual evidence that a star met its end by detonating twice. By studying the centuries-old remains of supernova SNR 0509-67.5 with the European Southern ...
This is the first evidence for a white dwarf exploding not once, but twice. The discovery could shed new light on how some ...
Stars often whip their planets with solar winds and radiation, pull them ever closer with gravity and sear them with heat.
Broadcast on Saturday nights from 1969 to 1985, with plenty of repeats and related programmes after that, this show and its rhythmic “Ba-ban-Ba-ban-ban-ban” ending theme song would be instantly ...
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More than one summer music festival has been targeted by violent, ignorant people, says Fleet Street Fox. But while Nova can rise again, Glastonbury's goose is long since cooked ...
In the heart of East Texas sits a shopping phenomenon so vast it has its own gravitational pull, drawing bargain hunters and ...
As new car movies cruise into theaters, we add the ones that make it to the front of the pack — including this week’s F1: The ...