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99.99% white dwarf atmosphere is pure oxygen
Astronomers first discovered a white dwarf with an outer layer containing 99.99% oxygen.
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NASA first recorded a giant red star explosion
Although the stellar explosion lasted only 20 minutes and took place 1.2 billion light-years ago, the US Aerospace Agency (NASA) successfully recorded the bright light e…
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Detects extremely powerful sources of gamma radiation in the universe
The binary star system with strong colliding star wind is the source of intense gamma radiation.
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The terrible secret of giant red stars
After 90 years of research, scientists have discovered this mystery.
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Huge blood bubbles out of Earth
The US and European Hubble Space Telescope discovered the remnant gas cloud of a supernova explosion in the Dorado constellation, which is 150,000 light years away from…
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Discover the biggest star explosion
Two NASA space telescopes have just captured the strongest star explosion ever. Scientists say the light of the explosion is clearly visible, although the star is locate…
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Makemake planet has no atmosphere as expected
The little planet Makemake has no atmosphere, this distant icy world revealed its secret for the first time.
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Constellations 13 billion years old
Our Milky Way series is surrounded by nearly 200 dense constellations, each with about one million stars on average. At the age of 13 billion years, these spherical cons…
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Supernova origin
With the Hubble Space Telescope, astronomers have lifted the long-standing mysterious veil of a star form, or its predecessor, to cause a supernova explosion in a galaxy…
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Mysterious 2,000-year-old supernova
The greatest mystery of the ancient supernova discovered by Chinese people 2000 years ago has been decoded.
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Uncontrolled antimatter explodes star clusters
The extreme heat change at the center of a very distant star cluster produces matter particles and antimatter, causing this star cluster to become unstable.
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Satellite launches map a 1 billion star cluster
The European Aeronautics Agency (ESA) has announced it has reached an agreement to launch an astronomical exploration satellite to map a billion stars in the universe.
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Cosmic vibrations reduce the mass of galaxies
The new study, published July 30 in Nature, explains the origin of spherical dwarf galaxies.
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An explosion of carbon-rich stars
A new study has been discovered by astrophysicists at the University of Warwick that a mysterious stellar explosion recorded in 2006 could mark the abnormal demise of a…