By combining two of the most powerful radio telescopes on Earth, an international team of researchers led by the Max Planck Institute for Radio Astronomy (MPIfR) in Bonn, created the most sensitive maps of the radio emission ...
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Jul 22, 2021
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The final stage of cataclysmic explosions of dying massive stars, called supernovae, could pack an up to six times bigger punch on the surrounding interstellar gas with the help of cosmic rays, according to a new study led ...
Astronomy
Jul 19, 2021
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Motions of a remarkable cosmic structure have been measured for the first time, using NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory. The blast wave and debris from an exploded star are seen moving away from the explosion site and colliding ...
Astronomy
Jun 24, 2021
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University of Maryland researchers created the first high-resolution image of an expanding bubble of hot plasma and ionized gas where stars are born. Previous low-resolution images did not clearly show the bubble or reveal ...
Astronomy
Jun 23, 2021
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Four planets locked in a perfect rhythm around a nearby star are destined to be pinballed around their solar system when their sun eventually dies, according to a new study that peers into its future.
Astronomy
Jun 11, 2021
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What happens if a supernova explosion goes off right beside another star? The star swells up which scientists predict as a frequent occurrence in the universe. Supernova explosions are the dramatic deaths of massive stars ...
Astronomy
Jun 7, 2021
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Astronomers using NASA's Hubble Space Telescope have traced the locations of five brief, powerful radio blasts to the spiral arms of five distant galaxies.
Astronomy
May 20, 2021
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When a massive star dies, first there is a supernova explosion. Then, what's left over becomes either a black hole or a neutron star.
Astronomy
May 14, 2021
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Stars form by the gravitational contraction of clouds of gas in space and can have various masses. Massive stars, together with many other stars, may form a huge star cluster (a group of more than 10,000 stars). The formation ...
Astronomy
May 7, 2021
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A curiously yellow pre-supernova star has caused astrophysicists to re-evaluate what's possible at the deaths of our Universe's most massive stars. The team describe the peculiar star and its resulting supernova in a new ...
Astronomy
May 5, 2021
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