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NASA’s Kepler witnesses vampire star system undergoing super-outburst

NASA’s Kepler spacecraft was designed to find exoplanets by looking for stars that dim as a planet crosses the star’s

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The NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope recently snapped a dreamy photo of NGC 5307, a dying, sun-like star that has collapsed

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Astronomers have detected a gravitational wave signal that appears to have been caused by a black hole swallowing a neutron

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Astronomers at The University of Texas at Austin, in partnership with Google, have used artificial intelligence (AI) to uncover two

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According to widely-accepted theories, the Solar System formed roughly 4.6 billion years ago from a massive cloud of dust and

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The universe is about 13.8 billion years old, and its stars are arguably its most momentous handiwork. Astronomers studying the

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A wee baby star at the tender age of just 2 million years has revealed itself to be quite the

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For the first time, a stellar eruption called a coronal mass ejection has been spotted fleeing a distant star. Such

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