Fermi Stories
NASA Discovers Crash of Extreme Stars in Unexpected Site
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A fleet of NASA missions has likely uncovered a collision between two ultradense stars in a tiny galaxy buried in a huge stream of gas. Astronomers have never seen this type of explosive event in an environment like this before…
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NASA’s Fermi Spots Young Star Cluster Blowing Gamma-Ray Bubbles
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For the first time, astronomers using NASA’s Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope have traced a budding outflow of gas from a cluster of young stars in our galaxy — insights that help us understand how the universe has evolved as NASA…
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Black Hole Eats Star: NASA Missions Discover Record-Setting Blast
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Editor’s note, Dec. 11, 2025: This story was updated to include an additional partner’s research and related release. Astronomers have been poring over a flood of data from NASA satellites and other facilities as they try to work out what…
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