Using Georgia State’s CHARA Array, an international team of scientists has uncovered unexpected complexity in how stars ...

For more than a century, astronomers have known that some “new stars” flaring into view are not births at all but violent ...

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Astronomers have long struggled to capture the true nature of stellar nova explosions. However, thanks to cutting-edge ...

New observations made with APEX and other telescopes have now revealed that the star that European astronomers saw was not a nova, but a much rarer, violent breed of stellar collision. It was ...

After a stellar explosion was reported in 1866, British astronomer John Herschel announced he had seen a bright flare from the same location 24 years earlier. Herschel's claim was contested almost ...

NASA initially considered the Nova rocket as the launch vehicle for the Apollo program's Direct Ascent mission profile, prior to the selection of the Saturn V. Conceived as significantly larger and ...

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