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Astronomers have discovered a new type of stellar object that could change their understanding of extreme celestial bodies in the universe. Initially, Curtin University doctoral student Tyrone O ...

Here’s how it works. Astronomers have discovered a new class of stellar object that seems to be defying death in inexplicable ways. The object, located about 15,000 light-years from Earth ...

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At dusk on a late October night in 1408, something mysterious lit up the skies above China. Ming Dynasty astronomers who ...

Ever wondered what it would be like to live near a neutron star or inside a black hole? We’re ranking the most extreme ...

A near-complete census of our interstellar neighborhood hopes to answer how stars, brown dwarfs and rogue planets form ...

Astronomers have detected a sub-stellar object that used to be a star, after being consumed by its white dwarf companion. An international team including Dr. Rene Breton, a Marie Curie Fellow at The ...

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Which extreme stellar objects could actually support life? In this video, we explore the most bizarre and powerful cosmic bodies—black holes, neutron stars, white dwarfs—and rank them by ...