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The most detailed glimpse yet of a doomed star hidden in dust before it exploded has been captured by astronomers. Using NASA ...
NASA scientists are closely monitoring a star so strong that it could tear a human to shreds if they ventured within 600 miles - and its origin remains a mystery. This neutron star is so uncommon that ...
Astronomers have used an X-ray spacecraft called XRISM to observe powerful winds blowing from a neutron star — the findings ...
By combining Webb’s infrared data with older Hubble Space Telescope images, scientists traced the explosion, known as ...
XRISM found a slow, thick wind from a neutron star, pointing to temperature as the key driver of cosmic wind behavior. The ...
NASA has unveiled a breathtaking new image showing what appears to be a massive “cosmic hand” stretching across 150 light-years of space, created by one of the galaxy’s most powerful electromagnetic ...
Spectacular new images from NASA's James Webb Space Telescope gave astronomers a detailed, never-before-seen look at a dying star. The star is actually one of two at the heart of NGC 1514, a nebula in ...
Our readers agree that in the unlikely event you were able to approach a neutron star, it would look very smooth and bright ...