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Astronomers just made what may be one of the rarest finds in our Milky Way Galaxy — a pair of stars that will one day crash into one another and explode in a gold-producing kilonova. When a massive ...

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The Laser Interferometer Gravitational-wave Observatory (LIGO) famously detects gravitational waves by looking at the collisions of black holes. It also looks at collisions of other cosmic bodies, ...

When a giant star reaches the end of its life, it explodes and emits an enormous amount of light. That is a supernova. For weeks to months, it shines as bright as an entire galaxy. A kilonova is also ...

In a strange turn of events, a supernova birthed twin baby neutron stars that merged to make a powerful kilonova. Reading time 3 minutes When massive stars die, they go out in fiery explosions called ...

When neutron stars collide, they produce an explosion that, contrary to what was believed until recently, is shaped almost like a perfect sphere. Although how this is possible is still a mystery, the ...

(This article forms a part of the Science for All newsletter that takes the jargon out of science and puts the fun in! Subscribe now!) Researchers have confirmed the detection of a star system that ...

There may only be 10 of these ultra-rare systems in the entire Milky Way Galaxy. Astronomers just made what may be one of the rarest finds in our Milky Way Galaxy — a pair of stars that will one day ...