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NASA’s TESS Spots Record-Breaking Stellar Triplets
Professional and amateur astronomers teamed up with artificial intelligence to find an unmatched stellar trio called TIC 290061484, thanks to…
Discovery Alert: Mini-Neptune in Double Star System is a Planetary Puzzle
The Discovery A planet that could resemble a smaller version of our own Neptune orbits one of two Sun-like stars…
NASA’s Fermi Mission Nets 300 Gamma-Ray Pulsars … and Counting
A new catalog produced by a French-led international team of astronomers shows that NASA’s Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope has discovered…
Gamma-Ray Bursts: Black Hole Birth Announcements
Gamma-ray bursts are the brightest, most violent explosions in the universe, but they can be surprisingly tricky to detect. Our…
Multiple Star Systems
Multiple Star Systems Our solar system, with its eight planets orbiting a solitary Sun, feels familiar because it’s where we…
NASA Visualization Rounds Up the Best-Known Black Hole Systems
Nearby black holes and their stellar companions form an astrophysical rogues’ gallery in this new NASA visualization. Stars born with…
