Barbara Kennedy
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Watch This Black Hole Rip Apart a Star
Astronomers caught a black hole tearing apart a star in the center of a galaxy about 290 million light years away from Earth.
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Pulsar Launches ‘Clump’ as Heavy as Earth’s Oceans
A fast-moving pulsar appears to have punched a hole in a disk of gas around its companion star and to have launched a fragment of the disk outward at a speed of about 40 million miles per hour.
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Giant Planets Orbit Close but Don’t Crash Into Star
Astronomers say they have a clearer picture why two giant planets are able to orbit close to their star without getting flung into the star or colliding into each other.
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Watch This Black Hole Rip Apart a Star
Astronomers caught a black hole tearing apart a star in the center of a galaxy about 290 million light years away from Earth.
|
Pulsar Launches ‘Clump’ as Heavy as Earth’s Oceans
A fast-moving pulsar appears to have punched a hole in a disk of gas around its companion star and to have launched a fragment of the disk outward at a speed of about 40 million miles per hour.
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Giant Planets Orbit Close but Don’t Crash Into Star
Astronomers say they have a clearer picture why two giant planets are able to orbit close to their star without getting flung into the star or colliding into each other.
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