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"Transitional millisecond pulsars are cosmic laboratories that help us understand how neutron stars evolve in binary systems." ...
The Hubble Space Telescope has captured imagery of the R Aquarii binary star system from 2014-2023. The images have been time ...
Astronomers discover a new strategy for detecting exoplanets: look for aligned binary stars that reveal hidden worlds more ...
A pair of stars orbiting one another has been found near the supermassive black hole Sagittarius A* using the European ...
The double star system is called HD 135344 AB and it's about 440 light-years away from Earth. A and B are both young stars, ...
Astronomers led by Simon Portegies Zwart used simulations to reconstruct how three stars were ejected from the star cluster ...
Only a few dozen of these short-lived binaries exist in the galaxy at a time, making the serendipitous find extremely valuable.
Astronomers have been aware of cosmic vampires, dead stars that hungrily strip plasma from victim stars, for some time. New ...
An international team of astronomers has uncovered new evidence to explain how pulsing remnants of exploded stars interact ...
Algol, also known as the Demon Star, loses some 70 percent of its light every three days. It's in Perseus the Hero, now ...
The James Webb Space Telescope has captured a rare glimpse at the gaseous "shrouds" that surround dying stars before they go ...
The Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory (LIGO)'s LIGO-Virgo-KAGRA (LVK) collaboration has detected an ...