Ancient star, but not one of the first: One of the oldest known stars ever observed is a subgiant star in the…
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A Priority Mail stamp featuring spiral galaxy NGC 628 (left). A Priority Mail Express stamp of star cluster IC…
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The first brown dwarfs outside the Milky Way.
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This artist's concept illustrates a supermassive black hole with millions to billions times the mass of our su…
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SN 2021yfj is a new kind of supernova, challenging our understanding of stellar evolution. Its progenitor lost…
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A study led by the Center for Astrophysics | Harvard & Smithsonian (CfA) has captured the explosive interactio…
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A cluster of stars inside a large nebula. The clouds of gas and dust are predominantly bright red in colour an…
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Artist’s conception of a magnetar surrounded by an accretion disk that is wobbling, or precessing, because of…
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This artist's concept depicts a supermassive black hole in the process of shredding a massive star—at least 30…
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Artist illustration of supermassive black hole surrounded by cloud of red and yellow gas
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This artist's concept depicts a tidal disruption event, which occurs when a star passes fatally close to a sup…
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This image features data from Webb’s NIRCam (Near Infrared Camera) and MIRI (Mid Infrared Instrument) to captu…
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