Tantalising evidence of potential dark matter objects has been detected with the help of the Universe’s ‘timekeepers’. These pulsars —…
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X-ray binaries are intriguing systems consisting of two celestial bodies: a normal star and a compact, dead object such as…
Read More »Somewhere in the not-too-distant universe, a galaxy named SDSS1335+0728 is waking up. Over the past four years, astronomers have been…
Read More »In late 2019 the previously unremarkable galaxy SDSS1335+0728 suddenly started shining brighter than ever before. To understand why, astronomers have…
Read More »Low-density “cotton candy planets” continue to be a cosmic puzzle for astronomers. Despite being 50 percent bigger than the gas…
Read More »Almost a decade after astronomers proposed the existence of Planet 9, an unseen extra planet in the distant reaches of…
Read More »One of NASA’s Great Observatories may soon meet an untimely demise. The Chandra X-Ray Observatory—an orbiting telescope launched in 1999…
Read More »This deep sky image (left) contains a star cluster (right) that could be the faintest and smallest galaxy ever seen…
Read More »At the heart of a far-off galaxy, a supermassive black hole appears to have had a case of the hiccups.…
Read More »A galaxy that suddenly stopped forming new stars more than 13 billion years ago has been observed by astronomers. Using…
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