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Hubble telescope watches nova explosion fire cosmic bullets at 20 million mph

Using Hubble, astronomers have discovered that a "helium nova" in the Milky Way is riddling our galaxy with cosmic bullets ...
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Astronomers found mysterious gas 'bullets' racing out of the Milky Way's rarest stellar explosion

For 25 years, one of the Milky Way’s strangest stellar explosions hid its culprit behind its own debris. Now the dust has ...

Something entirely new is coming out of a solar system in our galaxy

Something we’ve never seen before is coming out of a solar system in our galaxy, astronomers say - Blasts of gas travelling ...

Mysterious gas 'bullets' race from Milky Way's only known helium nova at up to 20 million mph

Mysterious high-speed "bullets"—clumps of possibly oxygen-rich gas traveling at up to 20 million miles per hour—have been ...

Einstein Probe discovers mysterious cosmic explosion unlike anything astronomers have seen before

A peculiar cosmic event, dubbed EP240305a, has baffled astronomers with its rapid X-ray fade and lingering radio signals. Detected by China's Einstein Probe, this transient phenomenon exhibits ...

Observations investigate the nature of a peculiar supernova

An international team of astronomers has performed follow-up observations of a peculiar Type Ia supernova designated SN ...
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'Whippet' black hole explosion becomes brightest stellar-collapse event ever recorded

Astronomers say the newly discovered `Whippet` black hole event unleashed the brightest stellar-collapse explosion ever, outshining all known supernovae ...
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Exploding stars: MSU physicist earns NSF CAREER award to study stellar explosions, element formation

STARKVILLE, Miss.—Jaspreet Singh Randhawa, a Mississippi State assistant professor of physics, has received a prestigious CAREER Award from the National Science Foundation to support a $700,000 ...