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The comet was identified as interstellar due to its highly eccentric hyperbolic orbit, which is unlike the elliptical orbits ...
Stars often die with a final burst of beauty. For the first time, astronomers have captured visual proof that a star can ...
A team of international researchers led by Tomas Stolker in the Netherlands has imaged a young gas giant exoplanet near a 12-million-year-old star. The planet is orbiting a star whose planet formation ...
The explosion of a star, called a supernova, is an immensely violent event. It usually involves a star more than eight times ...
Astronomers have, for the first time, witnessed a star meeting a dramatic end by exploding twice. In a study published in ...
Astronomers have finally caught a dying star in space going out with a bang — and then another bang. The new photographic ...
New observations show a star that blew up in two separate bursts, confirming a long-suspected cosmic phenomenon called a ...
Very massive stars are cosmic "rock stars" that live fast, die young and leave black holes in their place. During this ...
MUSE allows astronomers to map the distribution of different chemical elements, displayed here in different colours. Calcium ...