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Astronomers at Wuhan University used the Insight-HXMT satellite to study the dramatic 2022–23 X-ray outburst from RX J0440.9+4431.

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A team of international astronomers led by Konstantina Anastasopolou has investigated a supergiant star named Wd1-9.

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By conducting multiwavelength observations with various telescopes and space observatories, astronomers from Tsinghua ...

Since 2017, three interstellar objects have been spotted passing through our solar system: 1I/ʻOumuamua, 2I/Borisov… and just ...

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Our publisher worries about the team’s offense, but there’s a reason for that: Twenty-five years of struggle from a team on ...