Dying stars create new elements
Astrophysicists showed that collapsing white dwarfs can eject enough material to form heavy elements.
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Astrophysicists showed that collapsing white dwarfs can eject enough material to form heavy elements.
Astronomers studied light emissions from a star system 2 years after its peak brightness and saw that it had consumed and partially spat out…
Astronomers examined 84 of the closest known stars with potentially habitable exoplanets and found that 3 face possible extinction-level…
An astronomer analyzed ancient supermassive black holes with mathematical models and found they likely grew exponentially after light,…
Astronomers developed new theoretical models for how stars evolve that suggest the JWST could glimpse the oldest stars in the universe…
An astronomer studying the 3 main processes that cause galaxies to lose mass found that the dominant process depends on the size and age of…
A team of astronomers reconstructed a 3-part history of the Milky Way Galaxy by comparing the physics and chemistry of 10 million red giant…
Scientists in South America and Italy found that a machine-learning algorithm astronomers commonly use to analyze large datasets classified…
A team of astrophysicists in China simulated collisions between the remains of former stars and showed the resulting explosions could…
Astronomers found the density of dust in the universe has been steadily decreasing for the last 10 billion years, as it coalesced to form…