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Watch the 'Christmas Tree Cluster' twinkle in X-rays (video)
By Elizabeth Fernandez published
The twinkling lights of the Christmas Tree Cluster tell us about the science going on there.
Pollux, the brighter twin star of Gemini
By Robert Lea last updated
Reference Pollux is the brightest star in the constellation Gemini and one of the brightest stars in Earth's sky. It is more massive than the sun and 43 times brighter than our star.
Strange 'slide whistle' fast radio burst picked up by alien-hunting telescope defies explanation
By Robert Lea published
The fascinating patterns of 35 repeating fast radio bursts (FRBs) reveal new properties of these mysterious blasts of deep-space radiation that appear and disappear in milliseconds.
How the songs of stars can help perfect Gaia's sweeping map of our galaxy
By Robert Lea published
By listening to "music" played by shaking stars, astronomers could use asteroseismology as a new type of cosmic distance ruler, perfecting the 3D map of two billion stars being built by Gaia.
Intergalactic 'stream of stars' 10 times longer than the Milky Way is the 1st of its kind ever spotted
By Harry Baker published
While hunting for dark matter, astronomers accidentally discovered the first known stellar stream stretching between galaxies. The trail of stars is also the longest ever seen.
Cosmic nuclear fission seen for 1st time in 'incredibly profound' discovery
By Robert Lea published
Heavy elements like gold and silver are believed to be created when neutron stars collide, but new research suggests these collisions may also spur nuclear fission reactions.
Our universe's most extreme stars sometimes 'glitch' — we may now know why
By Robert Lea published
A unified approach of quantum physics and astrophysics may have brought scientists closer to understanding the "glitches" experienced by ultradense dead stars called neutron stars.
X-ray telescope catches 'spider pulsars' devouring stars like cosmic black widows (image)
By Robert Lea published
NASA's Chandra X-ray Space Telescope has spotted a "clutter" of rapidly spinning neutron stars called spider pulsars that are devouring surrounding stars.
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