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A Tour of PSR B1259-63/LS 2883 (07-22-2015)
A fast-moving pulsar appears to have punched a hole in a disk of gas around its companion star and launched a fragment of the disk outward at a speed of about 4 million miles per hour.
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-- Pulsar Punches Hole In Stellar Disk
A fast-moving pulsar appears to have punched a hole in a disk of gas around its companion star and launched a fragment of the disk outward at a speed of about 4 million miles per hour.
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-- Pulsar Punches Hole In Stellar Disk
A Tour of NGC 1333 (07-07-2015)
While fireworks only last a short time here on Earth, a bundle of cosmic sparklers in a nearby cluster of stars will be going off for a very long time.
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-- Stellar Sparklers That Last
While fireworks only last a short time here on Earth, a bundle of cosmic sparklers in a nearby cluster of stars will be going off for a very long time.
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-- Stellar Sparklers That Last
A Tour of NGC 5813 (07-06-2015)
Galaxy groups are families of galaxies that are bound together by gravity. They are very similar to their larger cousins, galaxy clusters.
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-- Chandra Finds Evidence for Serial Black Hole Eruptions
Galaxy groups are families of galaxies that are bound together by gravity. They are very similar to their larger cousins, galaxy clusters.
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-- Chandra Finds Evidence for Serial Black Hole Eruptions
Light Beyond the Bulb: Over and Beyond the Rainbow (07-01-2015)
While scientists and philosophers have tried to figure out exactly what light is for millennia, it's only been in the past several hundred years or so that we've really started to figure it out.
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-- Light Beyond the Bulb
While scientists and philosophers have tried to figure out exactly what light is for millennia, it's only been in the past several hundred years or so that we've really started to figure it out.
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-- Light Beyond the Bulb
A Tour of Circinus X-1 (06-25-2015)
These rings are light echoes, similar to sound echoes that we may experience here on Earth.
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-- X-ray Echoes Pinpoint Location of Distant Flaring Neutron Star
These rings are light echoes, similar to sound echoes that we may experience here on Earth.
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-- X-ray Echoes Pinpoint Location of Distant Flaring Neutron Star
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Revised: November 03, 2022