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Astronomers get a chance to watch a rare red nova in its opening strains

2016-10-25 15:20:50| Extremetech

This doomed dynamic duo is just clearing its throat before it really starts to make a scene. Some six years hence, the binary pair will explode as a red nova, and this time we don't even have to choose between getting popcorn and watching the previews.

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Astronomers discover true nature of giant space blob

2016-09-21 12:00:21| Extremetech

No, for real, it's called a Lyman-Alpha blob, and it's way cooler than we thought. It's not just a star nursery. It's at the center of a swarm of nascent galaxies.

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Astronomers discover a starving supermassive black hole at the center of a galaxy

2016-09-15 19:52:38| Extremetech

What happens when a black hole falls on hard times? Astronomers have found a black hole that's rapidly getting dimmer, and they think it's starving.

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Astronomers discover Earth-like exoplanet in the nearest star system

2016-08-24 21:44:41| Extremetech

Proxima b is the closest exoplanet ever discovered, and it may even have the potential to harbor life.

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Astronomers observed a nova explosion for the first time by accident

2016-08-19 14:45:09| Extremetech

After spotting the explosion while looking at something else, the astronomers realized they had inadvertently captured the entire nova process.

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