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Astrophysics
Scientific news within the field of astrophysics, from news of solar eclipses to star behavior.
Middleweight division opens up for black holes
Astronomers expect that intermediate-mass black holes weighing 100 - 10,000 Suns exist, but so far no conclusive…
Young red dwarf stars’ spew makes them uninhabitable
The search for life beyond Earth starts in habitable zones, the regions around stars where conditions could…
Stars form a bridge to connect two dwarf galaxies
Its appears that the two largest satellite galaxies of the Milky Way, the Magellanic Clouds, are connected by a…
Elusive white dwarf pulsar is first to be discovered
Thanks to research by the University of Warwick, an exotic binary star system 380 light-years away has been…
X-ray Reading Bump Hints At Dark Matter
A bump in X-ray readings from the Chandra-X-ray observatory that appears to be similar to bumps seen with X-rays…
Superluminous Supernova Modeled In 2D
Sightings of a rare breed of superluminous supernovae—stellar explosions that shine 10 to 100 times brighter than…
First Imaging Of Gamma Rays From Beyond-The-Limb Solar Flares
An international science team says NASA's Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope has observed high-energy light from solar…
New Stars Springing Into Life In Canes Venatici
The lesser-known constellation of Canes Venatici (The Hunting Dogs), is home to a variety of deep-sky…
Karma karma karma chameleon supernova
Astronomer Carl Sagan famously said, "We're made of star stuff." Nuclear reactions that happened in ancient stars…
Studying the meteorites in historic giant space collision
There was a giant collision in outer space, four hundred and sixty-six million years ago. Something hit an asteroid…