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This signal may hail from a magentar, a high-energy neutron star with an extremely strong magnetic field, nearby another unusual sun.
Some stars make it too bright for telescopes to spot far-away Earth-like planets. A massive orbiting starshade space could help.
When a star 20 times as massive as our sun dies, it can explode in a supernova and squeeze back down into a dense black hole (with gravity’s help). But that explosion is never perfectly symmetrical, so sometimes, the resulting black holes goes hurtling off into space. These wandering objects are often called “rogue black […]
Instead of the stars, the planets have aligned. After 18 years, Mercury, Venus, Mars, Jupiter, and Saturn are all visible in order in the sky.
When you see a distant star in the night sky, it might twinkle and look like it has five points. This is largely a trick of the eye. Zoomed in, most stars are just round balls of gasses and dust. As they age, heat up, consume other matter, and sometimes explode, they take on more […]
Astronomers have only seen three such eruptions, all on the surface of white dwarf stars. The events are shorter and dimmer than most novae.
Hubble was in just the right place to glimpse the star’s light, which was magnified by a gravitational lens.
The Webb’s first full-resolution imagery and science data will be released in the summer. Till then, check out this star.
Two newly shared Hubble Space telescope images from NASA and the ESA show a triple galaxy merger and a star-dusted galactic collision.