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Astrophysics
Scientific news within the field of astrophysics, from news of solar eclipses to star behavior.
Cell phone’s could find galactic fast radio bursts
There have been fewer than two dozen Fast Radio Bursts (FRBs) identified in the past decade using giant radio…
Cluster Spits Out Stars Like Never Before
Astronomers observe black hole producing cold, star-making fuel from hot plasma jets and bubbles.
Dwarf Star Hiding Life’s Building Blocks
There is this belief that when the Earth was formed it was dry, and that the building blocks for life of our…
Young red dwarf stars’ spew makes them uninhabitable
The search for life beyond Earth starts in habitable zones, the regions around stars where conditions could…
Middleweight division opens up for black holes
Astronomers expect that intermediate-mass black holes weighing 100 - 10,000 Suns exist, but so far no conclusive…
Stars form a bridge to connect two dwarf galaxies
Its appears that the two largest satellite galaxies of the Milky Way, the Magellanic Clouds, are connected by a…
Elusive white dwarf pulsar is first to be discovered
Thanks to research by the University of Warwick, an exotic binary star system 380 light-years away has been…
X-ray Reading Bump Hints At Dark Matter
A bump in X-ray readings from the Chandra-X-ray observatory that appears to be similar to bumps seen with X-rays…
Superluminous Supernova Modeled In 2D
Sightings of a rare breed of superluminous supernovae—stellar explosions that shine 10 to 100 times brighter than…
First Imaging Of Gamma Rays From Beyond-The-Limb Solar Flares
An international science team says NASA's Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope has observed high-energy light from solar…