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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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
Most supernovae result from the dramatic collapse of massive stars, but one important type comes from a more modest origin.
Astronomers have discovered over 100 new alien worlds so far this year — some many light-years away from Earth — that ...
MUSE allows astronomers to map the distribution of different chemical elements, displayed here in different colours. Calcium ...