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Dead stars can celebrate 2 New Years every second with nearby cosmic fireworks
By Robert Lea published
Celestial fireworks that erupt all year long but last a fraction of a second, fast radio bursts, may have traced them to the immediate surroundings of extreme and highly magnetic dead stars.

Stars get ripped open like Christmas presents to create strange 'JuMBO' worlds
By Robert Lea published
What did you get fot X-mas? Scientists may have been gifted with a solution to the mystery of juMBOs, strange celestial bodies that seem to be neither planets nor stars.

What was the Star of Bethlehem?
By Jonathan O'Callaghan last updated
Reference The Star of Bethlehem probably wasn't a star.

Puffy white dwarfs could shed light on mysterious dark matter. Here's how.
By Keith Cooper published
Astronomers just took a big step toward a better understanding of white dwarfs, a discovery that could shed light on mysterious dark matter.

This red giant star has starspots larger than the entire sun
By Conor Feehly published
Astronomers modeled sunspot activity on a nearby red giant star to learn about its chaotic interior.

Violent superflares explode from sun-like stars every 100 years
By Robert Lea published
Violent superflares erupt from sun-like stars about once a century, far more frequently than previously expected. As a civilization around such a star, what does this mean for us?

Over 10,000 exploding stars catalogued by groundbreaking Zwicky Transient Facility
By Robert Lea published
The Zwicky Transient Facility has reached an incredible milestone, classifying over 10,000 supernovas, cosmic explosions that mark the death of massive stars.

Destroyed observatory helped SETI unlock the secrets of 'cosmic lighthouses' powered by dead stars
By Robert Lea published
Years after the collapse of the Arecebo telescope data from the radio observatory has helped SETI scientists probe the characteristics of pulsars, cosmic lighthouses powered by dead stars.
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