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Something 'kicked' this hypervelocity star racing through the Milky Way at 1.3 million miles per hour (video)
A low-mass star races through the Milky Way at over a million miles per hour, a journey that began with either the supernova explosion of a vampire star or an encounter with black holes.
To calibrate telescopes on Earth, NASA's launching an 'artificial star' to orbit
In 2029, the Landolt satellite launched into Earth's orbit will serve to calibrate telescopes on Earth.
Cosmic 'koi fish' swims through starry sea in stunning telescope photo
The Gum 3 nebula, which resembles a swimming koi fish, is captured in a stunning new photo from the European Southern Observatory's VLT Survey Telescope.
'Supernova discovery machine' James Webb Space Telescope finds most distant star explosion on record
The JWST has proven itself to be a "supernova discovery machine" by finding 80 exploding stars in the infant universe, including the most distant and earliest supernova ever seen.
'Vampire stars' explode after eating too much — AI could help reveal why
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
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
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)
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.
