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

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Calćada’s journey into astronomical art began when he spied Contact, a 1985 work of science-fiction by Carl Sagan, as a kid ...

Betelgeuse is the star that everybody can't wait to see blow up, preferably sooner rather than later. That's because it's a ...

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