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Get to know your neighbors with a new database of nearby star clusters, stellar associations, and substellar objects.

Most galaxies are expected to contain at least one massive black hole, but how robust is this prediction? New research uses ...

Globular clusters have far fewer binary stars than the solar neighborhood. New research identifies black hole burning as the ...

Now, the team has obtained new photometry from the Gran Telescopio Canarias and the United Kingdom Infra-Red Telescope, plus spectroscopy from the Gran Telescopio Canarias, to get a better sense of ...

While it’s common to find millisecond pulsars in binary systems — in fact, many millisecond pulsars are thought to spin up to their incredible speeds via accretion from a stellar companion — it’s rare ...

For weak magnetic fields, the gamma-ray cascade should have arrived at Earth hours or days after the neutrino was detected in 2023. These gamma rays are potentially detectable as long as the magnetic ...

The authors also infer several properties of Aquarius IV, including its centroid coordinates, half-light radius, ellipticity, distance, and absolute magnitude. They find that its radius is larger than ...

When seeking planets with atmospheres, researchers must consider how a planet has fared in its lifelong battle between gravity and radiation. Massive planets orbiting calm stars are more likely to ...

Figure 2: Convective power vs. radius in the 12 supernova simulations (with non-rotating progenitor stars) analyzed by the authors. The color gradient represents the time since the infalling outer ...

With this new measurement, the disagreement between observations and the predictions of relativity shrinks to just 2.3%. Looking to the future, Ding and collaborators anticipate that high-sensitivity ...