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Thanks to this unprecedented look into the early lives of binary stars, researchers have gotten a glimpse into the complex formation of the most common stellar setup.

Alpha Capricorni Binary Star System

A binary star supernova is a spectacular phenomenon where one of the stars in the system eventually collapses with an almost unimaginable explosion. Scientists at the University of California at Berkeley recently discovered a type of supernova that, fueled by helium instead of the usual carbon, is only about a tenth as bright as a normal supernova. A more frightening discovery is of a binary system in our own galaxy, only about 3,260 light years away, that had regular nova explosions every…

Astronomers have detected two stellar corpses whirling around each other, and they might be producing gravitational waves.

According to a new study by a team of astronomers, globular clusters are several billion years younger than previously thought.

Poster series about space and astronomic phenomens. For that an original typography was created : The Eclipse.

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To the unaided eye, Epsilon Lyrae, in the constellation Lyra, appears as one star. But it’s actually a star system with at least five stars.

Orbiting neutron stars create gravity waves