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What it looks like when a black hole eats a star

-- Shares Facebook Twitter Reddit Email view in app Here is your periodic reminder that space is a vast,...

This Binary System is Destined to Become a Kilonova

Kilonovae are extraordinarily rare. Astronomers think there are only about 10 of them in the Milky Way. ...

The Donut That Used To Be a Star

The death of a star is one of the most dramatic natural events in the Universe. Some stars...

How Do Stars Get Kicked Out of Globular Clusters?

Globular clusters are densely-packed collections of stars bound together gravitationally in roughly-shaped spheres. They contain hundreds of thousands...

It’s Feeding Time For This Baby Star in Orion

Young protostars are wrapped in what could be called a womb of gas and dust. The gas and...

A Black Hole Consumed a Star and Released the Light of a Trillion Suns

When a flash of light appears somewhere in the sky, astronomers notice. When it appears in a region...

New Observations Confirm That a Magnetar has a Solid Surface and No Atmosphere

Can a star have a solid surface? It might sound counterintuitive. But human intuition is a response to...

Can JWST see Galaxies Made of Primordial Stars?

All stars are composed of mostly hydrogen and helium, but most stars also have measurable amounts of heavier elements,...

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