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The explosion of a star, called a supernova, is an immensely violent event. It usually involves a star more than eight times ...

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Astronomers had long been suspecting that some stars do meet their end of life with a dual detonation and new images prove ...

Gravitational waves stretch and squeeze the fabric of space and time itself. When space/time is squeezed, pulsar pulses ...

A new gas giant world discovered by citizen scientists using data from NASA's exoplanet-hunting spacecraft TESS is cool, ...

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MUSE allows astronomers to map the distribution of different chemical elements, displayed here in different colours. Calcium ...

Astronomers have spotted an alien planet orbiting so closely to its home star, the planet's magnetic field is triggering ...

The clingy planet orbits so close to its star, it triggers powerful explosions of radiation that eat away at its atmosphere.

Scientists show that the frequency of a set of words seems to have increased in published study abstracts since ChatGPT was ...