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A massive magnetic helium star, on its way to becoming a magnetizer. Figure: ESO

A new type of star has been discovered: a massive magnetic helium star

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Astronomers at the European Southern Observatory discovered that the star HD 45166 is a neutron star about to become a megastar
A black hole swallows its companion star. Illustration: shutterstock

Two gravitational wave events within 10 days: black holes have been discovered that eat neutron stars - "like Pac-Man"

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The Laser Interferometer Gravitational Wave Observatory (LIGO) in the US and the Virago Gravitational Wave Observatory in Italy captured the gravitational waves from the death spiral and merger of a neutron star with a black hole, not once but twice. The findings were recently published in The Astrophysical Journal Letters
Thanks to a reanalysis of the data from 2017 of the merger event, we have now detected the signature of one defined heavy element within this fireball, the element strontium, proving that a collision of neutron stars caused the creation of this element in the universe. Figure: ESO

First ever detection of a heavy element created by the collision of neutron stars

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This image provides three different perspectives on the gamma ray burst GRB150101B, which is similar to the event where gravitational waves were measured and simultaneously also in the electromagnetic spectrum and there is a similarity between the two cases. In the center, an image from the Hubble Space Telescope shows the galaxy where the GRB150101B burst occurred. In the top corner, two X-ray images from NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory show the event as it appeared on January 9, 2015 (left), and as seen about a month later, on February 10, 2015 (right), as the explosion halo fades, point The bright light is the nucleus of the galaxy.Photo: NASA/CXC

Researchers have retrospectively identified another event of gravitational waves from colliding neutron stars

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The CLASS counter that was used for measurement and is in the accelerator lab in the USA. Photo: Jefferson Lab

A discovery sheds new light on what happens inside the atomic nucleus and in neutron stars

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Radio observations shed light on a neutron star collision event

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Imaging a kilonova: the merger and collision of two tiny but highly compressed neutron stars. Source: ESO/L. Calçada/M. Kornmesser.

The prediction from 1989 that came true and the rapid mobilization of astrophysicists to observe the source of gravitational waves with other detectors as well

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The NICER space telescope will study neutron stars during its construction. Photo: NASA

The telescope on the space station that will improve our knowledge of neutron stars will start operating

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A neutron star collision that creates a supernova. Illustration: shutterstock

Prof. Zvi Piran to the Hidaan website: "The solar system was lucky during its formation to receive an excess of heavy elements from the close merger of neutron stars"

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A red giant (and a planet next to it). Illustration: shutterstock

A hybrid star - a neutron star inside a red supergiant

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This artist illustration, prepared for the Harvard Smithsonian Center depicting two neutron stars at the moment of collision New findings confirm that neutron star collisions cause short bursts of gamma rays in which the rare metals including gold are produced. All the gold on Earth is believed to have come from such neutron star collisions. Image Credit: Dana Berry, SkyWorks Digital, Inc.

The gold on Earth was created in neutron star collisions

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Neutron star. Figure: European Space Agency (ESA)

Researchers reveal a new phase in the life of a neutron star

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Computer simulation of material ejected during the fusion process of neutron stars (by Stefan Rosweg). The ejected material reaches great distances and creates the radio signal there.

A tool has been developed that will make it possible to discover neutron star mergers that are good candidates for studying gravitational waves

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Supernova SN1979C is a likely candidate for the youngest black hole ever observed. Photo: NASA

The Chandra Space Telescope has discovered an extremely young and relatively nearby black hole

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The signals from the pulsar (behind) pass by a white dwarf and are amplified. Illustration: National Radio Observatory

Astronomers discover the most massive neutron star

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Swift J1749.4-2807 - a double system that also contains a pulsar. Image: NASA

A pulsar in eclipse: the key to understanding the Shapiro delay effect from general relativity

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A merger of a white dwarf and a tiny black hole forming a new tiny black hole. Figure: SLOAN sky survey

An exotic source of cosmic radiation: mini black holes

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Neutron star WR 104 won't kill us

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A new insight into magnets

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Communication through Cepheids - the Galactic Internet

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Forget neutron stars, quark stars may be the most dense objects in the universe

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Cancer death

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A tiny planet has been discovered 1,500 light years away

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This is not a comet - this is a pulsar

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Kindergarten to the stars

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