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Runaway 'failed star' races through the cosmos at 1.2 million mph
Citizen scientists have discovered what may be a brown dwarf racing through the cosmos at around 1.2 million miles per hour. Now astronomers want to know what launched it.
21 'one-in-a-million' extreme dead stars found hiding around sun-like stars
Astronomers have detected 21 rare systems with widely separated neutron stars and sun-like stars. These binaries are "one in a million" and challenge dead star binary formation models.
NASA X-ray telescope 'weighs' the closest rapidly spinning dead star to Earth
NASA's ISS-mounted X-ray telescope NICER has weighed and measured the closest pulsar to Earth. The neutron star PSR J0437 spins 174 times a second and has a mass of 1.4 suns.
Strange 'garden sprinkler' jets are erupting from a dead vampire star
Scientists have seen a cannibalistic neutron star spraying S-shaped jets like a cosmic garden sprinkler as it feeds on a companion star.
How the Rubin observatory could detect thousands of 'failed stars'
"It's possible we’re swimming in a whole sea of these objects that are really faint and hard to see."
Cosmic crime scene reveals ancient supernova aftermath of dead star merger
A "guest star," briefly seen in 1181, was created by colliding dead stars.
Rapidly spinning 'extreme' neutron star discovered by US Navy research intern
A Navy research team intern is part of a group of astronomers who have discovered a rapidly spinning neutron star, or "pulsar," in a dense cluster of stars around 10 light-years away.
Mystery of dead stars' glitching 'heartbeats' could have a twisted solution
The 'heartbeats' of rapidly spinning neutron stars are usually highly regular, but occasionally, the spin of these dead star pulsars 'glitches.' Now, a 'twisted' model could explain this mystery.
