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'Vampire stars' explode after eating too much — AI could help reveal why
By Robert Lea published
Type Ia supernovas erupt when white dwarf "dead stars" vampirically feast on a companion star. Researchers are turning to AI to better understand why.
Scientists find slowest spinning 'radio neutron star' — it breaks all the dead-star rules
By Robert Lea published
Taking almost a full hour to rotate rather than fractions of a second, ASKAP J1935+2148 is the slowest spinning radio-blasting neutron star ever seen.
Massive, magnetic stars beyond the Milky Way detected for the 1st time
By Robert Lea published
Astronomers have detected giant, magnetic stars outside the Milky Way for the first time. These infant stars in the Magellanic Clouds could reveal details of early stellar evolution.
Euclid space telescope finds 1.5 trillion orphan stars wandering the Perseus cluster (images)
By Robert Lea published
The Euclid telescope has allowed astronomers to discover a staggering 1.5 trillion orphan stars torn from their own galaxies to wander the Perseus cluster alone.
Are stars vanishing into their own black holes? A bizarre binary system says 'yes'
By Keith Cooper published
An unusual binary system could be evidence that some massive stars can die quietly, without a supernova explosion.
Enchanting new Hubble Telescope image reveals an infant star's sparkle
By Sharmila Kuthunur published
An infant star in a faraway system will likely someday look like our very own sun, and the Hubble Telescope snapped a lovely image of it.
In the Milky Way, 3 intruder stars are 'on the run' — in the wrong direction
By Robert Lea published
Three ancient stars that hail from cannibalized dwarf galaxies are "on the run" at hundreds of thousands of miles per hour in the Milky Way's galactic halo.
Giant 'rogue waves' of invisible matter might be disrupting the orbits of stars, new study hints
By Paul Sutter published
New research shows how disruptions to binary star systems could be the key to detecting space's most confounding substance — dark matter.
White dwarfs are 'heavy metal' zombie stars endlessly cannibalizing their dead planetary systems
By Robert Lea published
Zombie white dwarf stars keep their heavy metal exteriors fresh by constantly cannibalizing any smaller objects in their dead planetary systems, like comets and asteroids, that get in their way.
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