Rocket launch to image supernova remnant
A Northwestern University astrophysics team is aiming for the stars—well, a dead star, that is.
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Dead star's cannibalism of its planetary system is most far-reaching ever witnessed
The violent death throes of a nearby star so thoroughly disrupted its planetary system that the dead star left behind—known as a white dwarf—is sucking in debris from both the system's inner and outer reaches, UCLA astronomers ...
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Jun 16, 2022
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A white dwarf living on the edge
Astronomers have discovered the smallest and most massive white dwarf ever seen. The smoldering cinder, which formed when two less massive white dwarfs merged, is heavy, "packing a mass greater than that of our Sun into a ...
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Jun 30, 2021
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Distant, spiralling stars give clues to the forces that bind sub-atomic particles
Space scientists at the University of Bath in the UK have found a new way to probe the internal structure of neutron stars, giving nuclear physicists a novel tool for studying the structures that make up matter at an atomic ...
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Apr 1, 2021
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Physicists calculate when the last supernova ever will happen
The end of the universe as we know it will not come with a bang. Most stars will slowly fizzle as their temperatures fade to zero.
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Aug 13, 2020
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What are neutron stars?
Thrilled physicists and astronomers announced Monday the first-ever observation of the merger of two neutron stars, one of the most spectacularly violent phenomena in the Universe.
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Oct 16, 2017
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Discovery brings autonomous interplanetary navigation closer to reality
An accurate method for spacecraft navigation takes a leap forward today as the National Physical Laboratory (NPL) and the University of Leicester publish a paper that reveals a spacecraft's position in space in the direction ...
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Aug 4, 2016
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Can planets be rejuvenated around dead stars?
For a planet, this would be like a day at the spa. After years of growing old, a massive planet could, in theory, brighten up with a radiant, youthful glow. Rejuvenated planets, as they are nicknamed, are only hypothetical. ...
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Jun 26, 2015
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NuSTAR captures possible 'screams' from zombie stars
Peering into the heart of the Milky Way galaxy, NASA's Nuclear Spectroscopic Telescope Array (NuSTAR) has spotted a mysterious glow of high-energy X-rays that, according to scientists, could be the "howls" of dead stars as ...
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Apr 30, 2015
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Toothpaste fluorine formed in stars
The fluorine that is found in products such as toothpaste was likely formed billions of years ago in now dead stars of the same type as our sun. This has been shown by astronomers at Lund University in Sweden, together with ...
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Aug 21, 2014
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