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Scientists have discovered a mysterious 'iron bar' in the heart of a nearby nebula that could offer a glimpse into Earth's ...

"We found something never seen before and, more importantly, entirely unexpected," team leader Simone Scaringi of Durham ...

A new study reveals a rare-breaking white dwarf star, dubbed RXJ0528+2838, that is somehow generating a rainbow-like "bow ...

A compact stellar corpse in our own galaxy has just delivered one of the strangest surprises in recent astrophysics: a vast, ...

Astronomers at Durham University and collaborators at the University of Warwick used the European Southern Observatory’s Very ...

The Burn is a historic galactic catastrophe mentioned often in Star Trek: Starfleet Academy. But what exactly was this galaxy ...

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Astronomers from our Physics department have discovered a striking and unexplained shock wave surrounding a dead star. The ...

Astronomers from our Physics department have discovered a striking and unexplained shock wave surrounding a dead star. The ...

A white dwarf is creating a shockwave as it travels through the interstellar medium. Similar shockwaves are sometimes seen as ...

Experts observed the white dwarf star RXJ0528+2838 through the European Southern Observatory’s Very Large Telescope, and were ...