For over a decade, a star system on the verge of unleashing a deadly gamma ray burst appeared to have its guns trained on ...

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Space is a big place and there's lots of strange stuff out there, but scientists aren't quite sure where these massive space ...

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The observation of titanic jets emerging from the supermassive black hole at the heart of a distant galaxy could be a grim ...

It’s ok, Darth Vader hasn’t got our humble planet in his sights! No this Death Star is a binary system where both stars are ...

The spiral galaxy 2MASX J23453268−0449256 is located nearly 1 billion light-years away from Earth, and measures about three ...

Previous research also indicated that Earth looks down the axis of this system, known as Wolf-Rayet 104, raising concerns ...

It also means the Milky Way could potentially create similar energetic jets in the future – with the cosmic rays, gamma rays ...

New research led by W. M. Keck Observatory Instrument Scientist and astronomer Grant Hill has confirmed what scientists have long suspected—WR 104 comprises two massive stars: a Wolf-Rayet star and an ...

An artist’s concept of the famous Wolf-Rayet 104 “pinwheel star,” previously nicknamed the “Death Star.” New research ...

What's the deadliest part of a supernova explosion? To estimate this we have to look at what the actual destructive ...