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Space
Dark matter might live in a dense haze around stellar corpses
Scientists think it’s possible that shrouds of hypothetical particles called “axions” could surround extreme, dead stars called “neutron stars.” If…
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‘Superluminous’ nova from rare stellar duo spotted in Milky Way’s galactic neighbor
This summer, a dead star in a nearby galaxy flared back to life in an abnormally brilliant but brief nova,…
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Prime Video series ‘Secret Level’ unveils stellar vocal cast
With its wealth of video game characters and storylines to mine, Prime Video’s upcoming adult animated anthology project “Secret Level”…
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‘Stellar volcano’ erupts in amazing colors in new Hubble Telescope photo
The Hubble Space Telescope has captured an intricate portrait of two nearby stars that have been in close contact for…
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NASA’s Hubble Sees a Stellar Volcano
The Hubble Space Telescope has been operating for over three decades and continues to make ground-breaking discoveries that shape our…
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Gaia spots 55 ‘runaway’ stars blasted away from young stellar cluster at 80 times the speed of sound
Using Europe’s Gaia space telescope, astronomers have identified 55 runaway stars being ejected at high speeds from a densely packed…
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NASA’s TESS Spots Record-Breaking Stellar Triplets
Watch how the three stars in the system called TIC 290061484 eclipse each other over about 75 days. The line…
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Discoveries & Research
NASA’s TESS spots record-breaking stellar triplets
Professional and amateur astronomers teamed up with artificial intelligence to find an unmatched stellar trio called TIC 290061484, thanks to…
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Find your way across countless young stars in this image of a faraway stellar nursery (image)
Tendrils of gas and dust arc into the abyss of space while countless stars sparkle their brightest in this image…
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Hubble Captures Stellar Nurseries in a Majestic Spiral
The data featured in this image come from a program that extends the cooperation among multiple observatories: Hubble, the infrared…
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