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Remarkable Discovery of a Fast-Spinning Neutron Star in the Milky Way
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Remarkable Discovery of a Fast-Spinning Neutron Star in the Milky Way

A neutron star in the Milky Way has been discovered spinning at 716 times per second, making it one of the fastest objects observed. …

Nov 2, 2024 Mayur Tembhare
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Dying stars' cocoons might explain fast blue optical transients
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Dying stars' cocoons might explain fast blue optical transients

Using a newly developed model, astrophysicists present a new theory to explain fast blue optical transients, a new class of transients that has boggled …

Apr 21, 2022 Mayur Tembhare
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Astronomers discover micronovae, a new kind of stellar explosion
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Astronomers discover micronovae, a new kind of stellar explosion

A team of astronomers has observed a new type of stellar explosion -- a micronova. These outbursts happen on the surface of certain stars, …

Apr 21, 2022 Mayur Tembhare
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Giant stars undergo dramatic weight loss program
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Giant stars undergo dramatic weight loss program

Astronomers have found a slimmer type of red giant star for the first time. These stars have undergone dramatic weight loss, possibly due to …

Apr 15, 2022 Mayur Tembhare
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Record broken: Hubble spots farthest star ever seen
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Record broken: Hubble spots farthest star ever seen

NASA's Hubble Space Telescope has established an extraordinary new benchmark: detecting the light of a star that existed within the first billion years after …

Mar 31, 2022 Mayur Tembhare
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Scientists observe mysterious death of a star emitting six rings
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Scientists observe mysterious death of a star emitting six rings

Astrophysicists studying in unprecedented detail a red giant star named V Hydrae have witnessed the star's mysterious death throes. Researchers discovered that the carbon-rich …

Mar 29, 2022 Mayur Tembhare
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Mysterious death of carbon star plays out like six-ring circus
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Mysterious death of carbon star plays out like six-ring circus

Scientists studying V Hydrae (V Hya) have witnessed the star's mysterious death throes in unprecedented detail. The team discovered six slowly-expanding rings and two …

Mar 28, 2022 Mayur Tembhare
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Researchers map the movement of white dwarfs of the Milky Way
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Researchers map the movement of white dwarfs of the Milky Way

White dwarfs were once normal stars similar to the Sun but then collapsed after exhausting all their fuel. These interstellar remnants have historically been …

Mar 23, 2022 Mayur Tembhare
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Nearby star could help explain why our Sun didn’t have sunspots for 70 years
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Nearby star could help explain why our Sun didn’t have sunspots for 70 years

Astronomers identified a nearby star whose sunspot cycles appear to have stopped. Studying this star might help explain the unusual period from the mid …

Mar 23, 2022 Mayur Tembhare
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The start of the birth of planets in a binary star system observed
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The start of the birth of planets in a binary star system observed

Astronomers have observed primordial material that may be giving birth to three planetary systems around a binary star in unprecedented detail.

Mar 12, 2022 Mayur Tembhare
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