For the first time, scientists have made a clear X-ray detection of chlorine and potassium in the wreckage of a star using ...

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Astronomers from Texas have witnessed the moment a star's surface is torn apart by a supernova, becoming oblong in the ...

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The beginning of winter is a great time to be taking up astronomy, with long dark nights and a multitude of bright stars on ...

China is one of the most scientifically advanced countries in the world. Proof of this is the machine they use as a neutrino detector. It has been dubbed JUNO and it certainly look ...

Learn how new high-resolution images of two nova eruptions offer fresh insight into how these stellar explosions release ...

NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory wanted to wave goodbye to autumn by releasing images of celestial spectacles. The post Stunning cosmic wonders mark changing of seasons appeared first on Talker.

Astronomers from the University of California (UC), Berkeley and elsewhere have performed spectroscopic and photometric study of a peculiar supernova designated SN 2021ukt, which underwent a ...

Some white dwarfs in rapid binary orbits are far hotter and larger than theory predicts. Researchers found that powerful tidal forces between them generate enough heat to inflate their sizes and ...

The race is on to harness the near-infinite power of nuclear fusion—by building a star on Earth. And scientists are closer than you might think. Nuclear fusion in the sun occurs when hydrogen is ...