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The Ghost of TIC 160582982: Has TESS Found a Hidden Stellar-Mass Black Hole?
Astronomers have discovered a massive, unseen object lurking in the orbit of a distant, pulsating star. By “listening” to the rhythmic vibrations of the star TIC 160582982, researchers detected the gravitational tug of a mysterious companion…
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JWST Uncovers a Hidden Factory of Extreme Stars
Deep in the central bulge of our galaxy lie two incredibly dense ancient stellar systems known as “bulge fossil fragments.” For decades, these two crowded neighborhoods, designated Terzan 5 and Liller 1, have teased astronomers with…
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First Step to Mars: 400-foot Steel Skyscraper Flies to Space
The biggest story from today’s historic Starship launch isn’t just that it finally reached true orbit. It’s the brilliant, high-stakes engineering audible the SpaceX team called in the vacuum of space. At exactly 8:46 a.m. EDT,…
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Hidden in Plain Sight: A Magnetic Secret Uncovered in an Ordinary Star System
For years, the star system V844 Herculis was considered a perfectly normal, well-behaved dwarf nova. But a recent study has unveiled a stellar wolf in sheep’s clothing: an exceptional “intermediate polar” hiding inside what astronomers long…
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Three New Extreme O2 Stars Uncovered in Milky Way’s Neighbor
Using multi-epoch optical spectroscopy from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey V (SDSS-V), astronomers have identified three new O2-class massive stars lurking in the Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC), a dwarf satellite galaxy neighboring the Milky Way. Representing…
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Bringing the Red Planet to Slovakia: Inside Dr. Michaela Musilová’s Simulated Mars Mission
Before we ever set foot on Mars a series of rigorous testing here on Earth is required in order to prepare us for such a demanding journey and hostile environment of the Red Planet. Analog space…