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Scientists spot 4 superdense stellar corpses hiding behind their red dwarf companions
"Nearby isolated white dwarfs are usually easy to find, but we couldn't see these four stars directly."
This cosmic 'lighthouse' is blazing a magnetic trail through the Milky Way
Scientists have directly measured the magnetic field surrounding the speedy neutron star for the first time.
Astronomers may have heard the 1st 'whispers' of ghost particles created by supernova explosions
The universe is haunted by "cosmic ghosts" called neutrinos, which seem to be the "whispers" of stars that died in supernova explosions over the course of billions of years.
Dance of death between binary stars leads to an unusual supernova
When some stars die, they do not do so alone, potentially solving a long-standing mystery around a particular class of cosmic explosion called an interacting supernova.
Astronomers discover radio signals coming from rare 'Blue Eye Pulsar' after decades of silence
Astronomers have detected radio signals coming from a long-dead neutron star known as the 'Blue Eye Pulsar' after searching for decades.
'Stellar death is not the end': James Webb Space Telescope glimpses the fate of the solar system in a weird exoplanet orbiting a dead star
"It's like using a time machine to peer into the distant future of our solar system."
This ball of stars named Terzan 5 may be one of the Milky Way's original building blocks
Terzan 5 is a globular cluster with some unusual properties that have led a team of astronomers to suspect that it is more than meets the eye.
Our sun is destined to 'kick and spit' its way across the solar system when it dies
Scientists have discovered that dying stars don't go down without a fight, with red giants spitting out blobs of plasma and receiving a corresponding "kick."
