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For roughly the first 100 million years of the universe, there were no stars. This is what we call the "Cosmic Dark Ages". We ...
When white dwarfs—the hot remnants of stars like our sun—are orbited closely by another star, they sometimes steal mass away ...
Researchers from the Xinjiang Astronomical Observatory (XAO) of the Chinese Academy of Sciences have made significant ...
The "unintentional electromagnetic leakage" from airport radars and military radar systems can be "detectable across ...
Radar systems at airports like Heathrow and Gatwick could inadvertently signal our existence to advanced alien civilizations, according to recent research.
Only a few dozen of these short-lived binaries exist in the galaxy at a time, making the serendipitous find extremely ...
Astronomers uncover the first direct evidence for how some white dwarf stars explode, confirming the long-debated ...
For the first time, astronomers have obtained visual evidence that a star met its end by detonating twice. By studying the ...
This is the first time an object in its class has been detected in X-rays. The discovery could lead to a better understanding ...
The explosion of a star, called a supernova, is an immensely violent event. It usually involves a star more than eight times ...
"Honestly, it's been a little devastating," Kevin Hardegree-Ullman, a scientist at the NASA Exoplanet Science Institute at ...
Indian Institute of Space Science and Technology (IIST), Thiruvananthapuram, is directly supported by ISRO and offers ...