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How scientists are using spinning dead stars to find ripples in spacetime

Identifying the gravitational waves from black holes binaries could also make it clearer to detect primordial gravitational ...
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Dead Star Consumes Material From Planets In Hubble Data

Hubble Space Telescope observations of white dwarf star G238-44 has shown that it is "consuming both rocky-metallic and icy ...
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Data From Dead Space Telescope Shows Huge Wave Washing Over Stars in the Milky Way Galaxy

A team of scientists from the Istituto Nazionale di Astrofisica (INAF) in Italy, led by astronomer Eloisa Poggio, looked ...
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'It was the realization of a dream that we had chased for decades.' Powerful cosmic winds around neutron star reveal secrets of monster black holes

Astronomers have used an X-ray spacecraft called XRISM to observe powerful winds blowing from a neutron star — the findings ...
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‘Dead’ Star Caught Snacking on Pluto-Like Object

Nature can get brutal. On a cosmic scale, things get even more destructive—leaving behind carnage made of stellar dust the size of an entire planet. Astronomers using the Hubble Space Telescope ...
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In another star system, a Pluto-like world survived until the bitter end

NASA's Hubble Space Telescope detected material from a Pluto-like body spiraling into a white dwarf star 260 light-years away from Earth. Credit: NASA / JPL-Caltech / Tim Pyle illustration For the ...
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Soar through 44 million stars in Gaia telescope's latest 3D map of our galaxy — Space photo of the week

Scientists have used the Gaia Space Telescope to create a 3D map of star kindergartens within the Milky Way, and you can fly ...