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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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How a 14-Tesla Magnet Could Hunt for High-Frequency Gravitational Waves
By taking a clever shortcut through the laws of electromagnetism, researchers in Germany are building Europe’s…
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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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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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Astronomers May Have Spotted the First-Ever Binary R Coronae Borealis Star
For decades, astronomers believed that the hydrogen-deficient R Coronae Borealis (RCB) stars were strictly solitary survivors…
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CHARA Interferometer Uncovers Hidden Twin Stars in Alpha Piscium
Astronomers have achieved the first successful on-sky demonstration of dual-field interferometry at the Center for High…
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Tracking Knots of Plasma: Astronomers Uncover Single Black Hole Firing Jets at Changing Speeds
Recent observations performed by an international team of astronomers have revealed a surprising phenomenon: the exact…





