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Using the Hubble Space Telescope, astronomers have witnessed an infant star 20 times larger than the sun setting interstellar ...

A tiny, dense stellar corpse in a nearby galaxy is pumping out so much energy that, on paper, it should have blown itself ...

An Auburn University study finds that magnetic fields can guide electrons in plasma much like traffic signals, giving ...

Scientists at the X-ray free-electron laser SwissFEL have realized a long-pursued experimental goal in physics: to show how ...

A colossal bar of iron hidden inside the Ring Nebula may be the ghostly remains of a planet destroyed by a dying star.