An unconventionally bright star has disappeared into a stellar mystery of cosmic magnitude, according to new research published Tuesday in Monthly notices from the Royal Astronomical Society. RELATED: THE STORY OF HOW THE FIRST IMAGE OF A BLACK HOLE WAS CAPTURED The giant star disappears without a trace A stellar …
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Credits: NASA, ESA and STScI. Scientists named the young star HBC 672 and called the shadow function ‘Bat Shadow’. According to NASA, the team of scientists witnessed the flapping for 404 days. Trends Desk Last update: June 27, 2020 7:40 PM IST NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope has always sent amazing …
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Scientists may be one step closer to discovering whether we are alone in the universe. Astronomers recently discovered several nearby exoplanets that they say could “potentially harbor life,” orbiting the brightest red dwarf star in the sky. According to a study published Thursday in the journal Science, a team of …
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In a giant cloud of gas and dust 1,400 light-years away, twin shadows extend through space from a star, like the vast wings of a colossal cosmic bat. Now astronomers have surprised the hit of these shadows, and are not sure what is causing it. The winged shadow, photographed using …
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In August last year, the LIGO and Virgo collaborations made a gravitational wave detection, the first of its kind, in what appeared to be a black hole swallowing a neutron star. Now LIGO has confirmed the event, giving it the name of GW190814. And it appears that the neutron star …
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