An Astronomer Calculated the Exact Day a Star Will Blow—and It’s This Week
When it does take place, the outburst will be brief but it will appear as a new star in the sky for a little less than a week ...
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A Star "Explosion" Will Light Up the Sky This Week—How to See the "Once-in-a-Lifetime" Spectacle
T his time last year, astrophiles were gearing up for a "once-in-a-lifetime" spectacle—only it never happened. The celestial ...
We're one step closer to a giant interferometer on the moon
What's on and in a star? What happens in an active galactic nucleus? Answering those questions is the goal of a proposed ...
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Mysterious 'Death Star' on The Verge of Exploding Is Hiding a Secret
Thousands of light-years from Earth, the dramatic death throes of a giant star are playing out. It's part of a star system ...
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Stunning space photo captures bright blue shock wave around double star system
This image features a deep field view of the Cassiopeia constellation immersed in the glow of ionized hydrogen gas, where the ...
Your great-great-grandchildren might call these four newly found planets home one day
Scientists have discovered four tiny planets circling our second-closest star system, Barnard’s Star. The reddish ball of gas is only six light-years away from Earth in the constellation Ophiuchus.
4 miniature, Earth-like planets discovered extremely close to our sun
A quartet of small, rocky exoplanets likely circle Barnard's Star, around 6 billion light-years from Earth, putting them in ...