This summer, a dead star in a nearby galaxy flared back to life in an abnormally brilliant but brief nova, providing ...

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My research focuses on understanding the stories of binary stars. I use data from both space-based ... collaborators I have studied data from the Hubble Space Telescope, Chandra X-ray Observatory, the ...

An international team of astronomers has conducted a multiwavelength study of an X-ray binary designated 1eRASS ...

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There are monstrous objects at the heart of every large galaxy — black holes that are millions or even billions of times more ...

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Here’s how it works. Astronomers have scoured decades-old data from NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory, finding bright, lumpy ...

Astronomers continue to stress the value of X-ray science as NASA's flagship Chandra X-ray telescope remains on the chopping block. Astronomers have scoured decades-old data from NASA's Chandra X ...

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