Astronomers have watched the death of a star like never before, and it suggests there might be a new way for them to die. Last year, a space telescope called the Einstein Probe spotted a quick flash ...

Astronomers have for the first time seen the birth of a magnetar—a highly magnetized, spinning neutron star—and confirmed that it's the power source behind some of the brightest exploding stars in the ...

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