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Astronomers spot white dwarf star creating a colorful shockwave

In the shockwave, a red hue represented hydrogen, green represented nitrogen, and blue represented oxygen residing in interstellar space.

|ByREUTERS
The central square image, taken with the MUSE instrument on ESO's Very Large Telescope, shows shock waves around the dead star RXJ0528+2838.
Actor Wallace Shawn participates in a demonstration to support Gaza outside the White House on October 16, 2023 in Washington, DC. Members of the Jewish Voice for Peace and the IfNotNow movement staged a demonstration to call for a cease of fire in the Middle East.

Olivia Coleman, Ilana Glazer, Wallace Shawn, among stars pledging to boycott Israeli film industry

Hollywood A-listers pledged to not screen films or work with Israeli film institutions…that are "implicated in genocide and apartheid" against Palestinians.

|ByANDREW LAPIN/JTA
Illustration showing the remnant of a star being ejected at tremendous speed into space from the site of a supernova explosion caused by the interaction between a pair of white dwarfs.

Absolutely stellar race: Scientists uncover secrets of some of the cosmos's fastest stars - study

The white dwarfs reach speeds of almost 4x needed to escape the Milky Way’s gravitational pull.

|ByESTHER DAVIS
Artist’s drawing of SN 2021yfj. Having lost its outer layers, the dying star was left with only a core of oxygen, sulfur and silicon (bright center dot) but continued to experience extreme mass loss episodes that led to the ejection of material rich in silicon (gray), sulfur, and argon.

A cosmic murder mystery: Scientists spot supernova of star violently stripped to the bone

Israeli and American scientists have uncovered a never-before-seen type of supernova, shedding light on how stars produce and expel heavy elements like silicon and sulfur during their violent deaths.

|ByAARON REICH

Scientists explain missing black holes, dark matter with new model - study

Japanese researchers have proposed a new model for the formation of primordial black holes that could help explain the mysteries of dark matter and the early universe.

MAY 30, 2024ByAARON REICH
Artist’s view of a massive black hole mergers in a cluster, possibly like GW190521, a gravitational wave observation by LIGO/Virgo.

Massive stars may get magnetic fields when two stars merge together - study

Massive stars should not be able to have magnetic fields, but around 7% of them do anyway. A recent study found that this could be caused by stellar mergers.

APRIL 12, 2024ByAARON REICH
This image, taken with the VLT Survey Telescope, shows the nebula NGC 6164/6165, also known as the Dragon’s Egg, surrounding a pair of stars called HD 148937.

The stars align: Israeli researchers track a supernova in real time

Weizmann scientists chronicle the earliest stages of a supernova.

MARCH 31, 2024ByAARON REICH
This composite image of the Crab Nebula, a supernova remnant, was assembled by combining data from five telescopes spanning nearly the entire breadth of the electromagnetic spectrum.

A star is dead: Scientists watch supernova in real time - study

Scientists at Israel's Weizmann Institute of Science got lucky and managed to spot a star in a nearby galaxy go supernova, able to make a portrait of the star's last days.

MARCH 27, 2024ByAARON REICH
Pictured: Supernova 2023ixf occurred in Messier 101, also known as the Pinwheel Galaxy. The image was made using telescope data on the nights of May 21, 22 and 23, 2023

Dancing with the Stars: Scientists spot 6 planets with dance-like orbit

The six exoplanets orbit a star around 100 light years away and have been orbiting with dance-like synchronicity for billions of years, never once changing.

NOVEMBER 29, 2023ByAARON REICH
An artist's illustration of the six newly discovered planets circling their star in resonance. Image by Roger Thibaut.

3 Zodiac signs set for success in 2024, thanks to lucky Jupiter

Find out if your zodiac sign is on the list of those who will experience a blessed year filled with luck and abundance in 2024.

NOVEMBER 29, 2023ByWALLA!
These 3 zodiac signs will have a lot of luck this year

Pulsating stars could hold clues to dark matter's secrets - study

Axions are expected to interact weakly with known particles, offering a plausible explanation for the secretive nature of dark matter.

OCTOBER 17, 2023ByJERUSALEM POST STAFF
Dark matter and gas (Illustrative).

NASA's Hubble telescope spots 'dreamy' galaxy

NASA's Hubble Space telescope spotted and photographed a beautiful, dreamy galaxy millions of light-years from Earth.

SEPTEMBER 30, 2023ByJERUSALEM POST STAFF
An image of galaxy NGC 3156, taken by the Hubble Space Telescope.

Black hole is observed snacking on sun-like star, bite by bite

This marked the first time that scientists had observed a sun-like star being repeatedly snacked upon by a supermassive black hole.

SEPTEMBER 8, 2023ByREUTERS
Black Hole in a Globular Cluster (Illustration)

Black holes may be causing mature galaxies to stop producing new stars

Scientists have long suggested that the supermassive black holes in these galaxies are interacting with the gas clouds to prev

AUGUST 30, 2023ByJERUSALEM POST STAFF
This artist's concept shows a supermassive black hole at the center of a remote galaxy digesting the remnants of a star.