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By studying old and dead stars, we can discover what will happen to our sun in the far, far future. And it won’t end with a big explosion.
Are there stars other than the Sun that might explode soon close to us? Yes, there are! As long as by ‘soon’ we mean within a million years.
There are lots of places where it’s much, much hotter than the Sun. And the amazing thing is that this heat also makes new atoms - tiny particles that have made their way long ago from stars to us.
A team of astronomers captured the moment when a wayward star was pulled into the mouth of a supermassive black hole.
If we survive for another 7.59 billion years, our planet will spiral into the outer layers of the dying sun and melt away forever.
Stargazing seems such a quiet, calm activity. But whether our eyes can see or not, those stars out there are in constant flux. Time-domain astronomy studies how cosmic objects change with time.
Our understanding of heavy element production in supernovae, exploding stars way beyond our solar system, may need to change following some discoveries we have made looking not to the skies, but deep under…
Research of a supernova in our galaxy will increase the precision of which we can measure distances outside of our own galaxy…
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Director, Dunlap Institute for Astronomy and Astrophysics, University of California, Santa Cruz
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Professor (Physics), University of Southern Queensland
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Senior Fellow, Australian National University
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Lecturer in Astronomy, Nottingham Trent University
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PhD Candidate, University of Southern Queensland
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Research scientist & Head of Science Operations and Support, e-MERLIN/VLBI National Radio Astronomy Facility, Jodrell Bank Centre for Astrophysics, University of Manchester
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PhD, The University of Queensland
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Imperial College Research Fellow, Imperial College London
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Lecturer In Pulsar Astrophysics, University of Manchester
