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Astronomy

NIGHT SKY: See a bright comet make a close flyby this Sunday

On 16 Sunday December, comet 46P/Wirtanen will make one of the 10 closest approaches of Earth in 70 years – and you may even be able to see it without a telescope

Deep Space

Cosmic ‘red nuggets’ reveal squelched stars and galaxy formation secrets

The new study was conducted using NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory

Deep Space

Rare black hole seen shredding a star

This kind of event has only been clearly seen at the centre of a galaxy before, not at the outer edges

News

Space telescope captures mysterious cosmic explosion

An odd flash of X-rays has been discovered by NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory in the deepest X-ray image ever obtained

News

Astronomers discover a ‘hyper-starburst’ galaxy

NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory and other telescopes reveal that a recently discovered galaxy is undergoing an extraordinary boom of stellar construction

News

Most luminous, energetic pair of stars found outside Milky Way

The dual-star system produces a cyclic flood of gamma rays, the highest-energy form of light

News

Young magnetic star likely to be the slowest ever detected

Astronomers have found evidence for what is likely one of the most extreme pulsars, or rotating neutron stars, found

News

Space telescope captures expanding debris from stellar explosion

Combining observations, astronomers have been able to learn new things about Tycho’s supernova remnant and the explosion that made it

News

Black hole’s 300,000 light-year blast captured by space telescope

A giant jet spanning continuously for many light years is seen racing out of the galaxy Pictor A

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