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Case of the missing stars: At least 800 stars have quietly disappeared in the last 70 years, say scientists
Based off of the little sense we’ve made of the hot mess that is the cosmos, there are two ways sta…
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Hidden third stars could be making binary star system members eat each other, scientists find
Scientists speculate that the concealed third star in Be star systems might gradually compel the mo…
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'Vampire' stars could be using galactic henchmen to help feed on their companions
Type-Be stars, nicknamed "vampire" stars, are believed to strip the mass of a surrounding star. Now…
Hannah Getahun
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A small star blew up a bigger star's funeral by exploding — but still missing the bullseye
Stars have much longer life spans than humans. Our Sun, for instance, is 4.6 billion years old wi…
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A star set to explode in 2083 will be the brightest object in Earth's sky as it dies
Over the next few decades, the star will brighten rapidly. Around 2083, all of the mass from V Sagi…
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'Jekyll and Hyde' binary stars discovered by Indian-origin scientist
A binary star system just under 20,000 light-years from Earth is unlike the others. Armed with an a…
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Two dead stars are causing an eclipse every seven minutes
Two white dwarf stars, more or less the same size as the Earth, are circling each other at hundreds…
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Millions of black holes are speeding around the Milky Way after being kicked at birth
Travelling at speeds greater than 70 kilometers per second — that’s 252,000 kilometers per hou…
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The James Webb telescope captured a stunning image of the 'fingerprint' that forms when 2 stars come close to each other in orbit
The rings are produced whenever the two stars come close to each other in their orbit — and it only…
Cheryl Teh
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An average neutron star is 1.4 times the mass of the Sun — but it’s no bigger than a city in size
On average, a neutron star has 1.4 times the density of the Sun. However, the Sun is more than…
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Two dead stars are dancing around each other proving Einstein's theory right
A star that’s 1.27 times the mass of the Sun is dragging the fabric of space and time with it
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Astronomers say a new type of stellar explosion on distant dead stars — called 'micronova' — could be plentiful in our universe
Using NASA satellite data, researchers observed a new class of stellar explosion, which is similar …
Paola Rosa-Aquino
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How a testing system created by the porn industry during the HIV epidemic could help Hollywood resume production in the coronavirus era
The testing method was established in the 1990s after an adult film star forged an HIV test and inf…
Sophia Ankel
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Why Netflix's 'thumbs up, thumbs down' ratings system is fundamentally flawed
It's fine if Netflix wanted to change stars to percentages - they still mean the same thing: the li…
Dave Smith,Dave Smith
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Harry Styles made Vogue history as the magazine's 1st cis male cover star, but some say the spot should've gone to a trans person instead
Queer fans have criticized the "Cherry" singer for taking up space in the fashion world, which has …
Callie Ahlgrim
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A weird, cigar-shaped object flew through the solar system last year. Now astronomers may know where it came from.
By comparing the historic path of 'Oumuamua against these millions of stars, the team discovered fo…
Dave Mosher
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An asteroid will block the brightest star in the night sky on Monday, and astronomers need your help seeing it
"If you are the lucky one to have the path go over your location, the star will fade over a period …
Dave Mosher
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Betelgeuse likely won't die as a supernova in your life. But astronomers are finding 'red nova' stars that may soon violently explode.
For years, Molnar and his colleagues have studied little-known yet extremely bright stellar mergers…
Dave Mosher
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Astronomers are pioneering a new way to find alien planets orbiting far-away stars. It led them to 6 unusual, vaporizing worlds.
In this particular system, the smaller of the two stars is on the brink of being too small to be co…
Morgan McFall-Johnsen
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All stars in the universe may form in pairs - but we can't find the sun's missing 'Nemesis'
When he introduced his Nemesis idea, Muller posited that the twin star might periodically intersect…