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Astronomers have described the first measurements of plasma layers within an interstellar shock wave that surrounds a pulsar.

The interstellar plasma is turbulent and scatters pulsar radio waves slightly away from a direct, straight line path. The ...

With the most powerful radio telescope in the southern hemisphere, we have observed a twinkling star and discovered an ...

You see one shooting star, you're like, woo. Call it a good night. That's for sure. So, this is just one way to get into astronomy. We got some other ways we wanna talk about, and some ways you ...

After more than a decade of mapping billions of stars across the Milky Way and beyond, a groundbreaking spacecraft is ...

Our sun, like all stars, is made mostly of hydrogen and helium. They are by far the most abundant elements, formed in the ...

Scientists have discovered two rare white dwarfs—which are among the dimmest stars in the universe—that feature changes in their surface composition caused by magnetic fields. This brings the ...