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Shedding the Cosmic Shroud: The Awakening of Distant Galactic Giant
When astronomers peer back to the very dawn of the cosmos, they expect to find small,…
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Forecast for Brown Dwarfs: Cloudy with a Chance of Molten Sand
When you watch the clouds on Earth, you’re seeing water vapor that has cooled and condensed…
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The Ghost of TIC 160582982: Has TESS Found a Hidden Stellar-Mass Black Hole?
Astronomers have discovered a massive, unseen object lurking in the orbit of a distant, pulsating star.…
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JWST Uncovers a Hidden Factory of Extreme Stars
Deep in the central bulge of our galaxy lie two incredibly dense ancient stellar systems known…
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Hidden in Plain Sight: A Magnetic Secret Uncovered in an Ordinary Star System
For years, the star system V844 Herculis was considered a perfectly normal, well-behaved dwarf nova. But…
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Three New Extreme O2 Stars Uncovered in Milky Way’s Neighbor
Using multi-epoch optical spectroscopy from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey V (SDSS-V), astronomers have identified three…
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Searching for Cosmic Survivors: Roman Telescope Targets Planets Around Dead Stars
Despite discovering thousands of exoplanets across the galaxy, finding alien worlds orbiting white dwarfs has proven…
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The Oddball Star Cluster That Skipped a Phase
Deep in the constellation Cepheus lies NGC 7419, an oddball star cluster that may rewrite the…
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Tiny Telescope Aims for Big Astronomy From the Lunar South Pole
When China’s Chang’e-7 lander touches down near the Shackleton Crater on the Moon, it will carry…
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When Gas Giants Share the Sky: The Discovery of Planetary System TOI-4468
Using the Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS), an international team of astronomers has discovered a new…





