Discovering A Famous Supernova’s Secret Past
Supernova 1987A (SN 1987A) heralded the explosive and brilliant death of a massive star, whose powerful, fiery, wandering light reached Earth on February 23, 1987.[…]
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A Bare Black Hole Screeches Like A Banshee Through Space
Hiding in the secretive hearts of perhaps every large galaxy in the Universe, they lurk with sinister intent, waiting for their unfortunate dinner to come[…]
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Betelgeuse Is Spinning As Fast As It Can
Poised brilliantly on the shoulder of Orion The Hunter, the red supergiant, superstar Betelgeuse sparkles ominously, mysteriously in the sky–silently keeping to itself a well-cloaked[…]
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Wasteful Galaxies Inhabit The Cosmos
The death of a star is a spectacular, often beautiful, farewell performance that launches newly formed atomic elements screeching into Space. Small stars, like our[…]
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A Small Dark Galaxy Hides In Space
Silently, secretly, and swathed in a strange, exotic material woven of an invisible form of mysterious matter, it lurks in intergalactic space, bereft of starlight.[…]
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Lava Flows On This Oddball World
Many planet-hunting astronomers think that super-Earths are the most common type of exoplanet in our Milky Way Galaxy. Belonging to the strange and often exotic[…]
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