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"Our study provides a new direction to understand the whole evolutionary history of massive stars toward the formation of ...

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A mysterious supernova just rewrote the rules of star death. Astronomers are still struggling to explain what happened.

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"We found something never seen before and, more importantly, entirely unexpected," team leader Simone Scaringi of Durham ...

Astronomers have observed a rainbow-shaped bow shock around a nearby white dwarf. Strong magnetic fields may drive the ...

While observing the binary star R Aquarii in the constellation Aquarius, scientists at the Tartu Observatory discovered that ...

Here are six of the most stunning newborn stars and galaxies images shot by NASA James Webb Space Telescope, depicting the ...