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This conclusion was reached thanks to new data about the accelerations of nearby pulsars—rapidly spinning neutron stars that emit beams of radiation that sweep out through space light the beacon of a lighthouse.
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Gordon G. Chang, Newsweek, 11 Dec. 2024
The gravitational wavefront from a collision of two neutron stars some 115 million light years away had, LIGO reported, just passed through the earth.
—IEEE Spectrum, 28 Aug. 2019
The collisions of compact astrophysical objects such as black holes and neutron stars emit strong gravitational waves.
—Gaurav Khanna, Discover Magazine, 27 May 2024
The most obvious candidate, the team says, is a pulsar – a type of neutron star that produces beams of electromagnetic radiation from its poles.
—Michael Irving, New Atlas, 29 Nov. 2024
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Gordon G. Chang, Newsweek, 11 Dec. 2024
The gravitational wavefront from a collision of two neutron stars some 115 million light years away had, LIGO reported, just passed through the earth.
—IEEE Spectrum, 28 Aug. 2019
The collisions of compact astrophysical objects such as black holes and neutron stars emit strong gravitational waves.
—Gaurav Khanna, Discover Magazine, 27 May 2024
The most obvious candidate, the team says, is a pulsar – a type of neutron star that produces beams of electromagnetic radiation from its poles.
—Michael Irving, New Atlas, 29 Nov. 2024
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In mid-December 2024, scientists discovered a pair of binary stars designated D9 orbiting each other close to Sagittarius A* (Sgr A*), the supermassive black hole at the heart of the Milky Way.Robert Lea, Space.com, 30 Dec. 2024
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Scientists have never been able to detect the binary star system within the S-cluster -- until now.Julia Jacobo, ABC News, 17 Dec. 2024
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These Earth-sized planets were found orbiting a small red star called TRAPPIST-1, a star 40 light-years away with one-tenth of the mass of the sun.Lisa Kaltenegger, WIRED, 5 Dec. 2024
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Outside, after the mass, all the weeds in town were topped with red stars.Leanne Potts, Better Homes & Gardens, 30 Nov. 2024
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This region, about 8,000 light-years from Earth, is located adjacent to the famous explosive variable star Eta Carinae, which lies just outside the field of view toward the upper right.Alan Taylor, The Atlantic, 8 Dec. 2024
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Stars that change in brightness, known as variable stars, get brighter and dimmer; supernovas burst into view and then gradually fade away; and thousands of objects too faint to see with the unaided eye, like asteroids, move steadily across the sky.Dan Falk, Smithsonian Magazine, 20 June 2024
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The most famous of these are Type Ia supernovas, in which the white dwarf is obliterated in a runaway thermonuclear explosion after stolen stellar material piles up on its surface (though there are rare events called Type Iax supernovas, in which the white dwarf lives on as a wrecked zombie star).Robert Lea, Space.com, 23 Dec. 2024
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Situated some 3,000 light-years away from Earth, the Blaze Star is a binary system in which a white dwarf, the core remains of a dying star, accumulates material from its neighboring red giant star.Alexa Robles-Gil, Smithsonian Magazine, 7 Oct. 2024
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Rising above 45 meters and crowned by a giant star of 17 meters in diameter, this walk-through tree offers light shows and music every hour from 6:30 p.m. to 9:30 p.m. and is accompanied by eight other trees of lights instead of hanging decoration.Cecilia Rodriguez, Forbes, 16 Dec. 2024
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Leave tradition behind and commit to a modern aesthetic with these pretty hanging sphere lights that look like giant stars.Hannah Rice, Rolling Stone, 27 Nov. 2024
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Health equity requires a broader approach — one that recognizes and acts on the importance of real life variables like access to nutritious food, stable housing, and transportation.Ann Marie P. Mauro, New York Daily News, 11 Jan. 2025
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As these emergency travelers make short-notice decisions on when to go, where to stay and when to return, hoteliers are juggling more variables than usual.Christopher Reynolds, Los Angeles Times, 11 Jan. 2025
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This group has analyzed the most recent and most comprehensive observations of type-Ia supernovas and say the evidence is consistent with a model of the universe that isn’t exploding after all.The Physics arXiv Blog, Discover Magazine, 31 Dec. 2024
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Rubin's wide field of view will enable it to produce alerts for transient events like supernovas or asteroids within 120 seconds, generating 20 terabytes of data each night, ultimately creating the largest astronomical movie ever.Jamie Carter, Forbes, 7 Dec. 2024
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As expected with these diminutive masses, brown dwarfs are rarely found in binaries.Robert Lea, Space.com, 24 Dec. 2024
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But the other system isn’t a perfect mirror of our Solar System—a brown dwarf also orbiting the star may have played a part in the Earth-like planet’s survival, experts tell The New York Times.Christie Wilcox, science.org, 30 Sep. 2024
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“Neutron star.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/neutron%20star. Accessed 20 Jan. 2025.
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