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Type Ia supernovae (SNe Ia) are thermonuclear explosions of degenerate white dwarf stars destabilized by mass accretion from a companion star1, but the nature of their progenitors remains poorly understood. A way...
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Publisher Correction: A very luminous jet from the disruption of a star by a massive black hole
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A 62-minute orbital period black widow binary in a wide hierarchical triple
Over a dozen millisecond pulsars are ablating low-mass companions in close binary systems. In the original ‘black widow’, the eight-hour orbital period eclipsing pulsar PSR J1959+2048 (PSR B1957+20)1, high-energy...
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Author Correction: Discovery and confirmation of the shortest gamma-ray burst from a collapsar
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Optical follow-up of the neutron star–black hole mergers S200105ae and S200115j
LIGO and Virgo’s third observing run revealed the first neutron star–black hole (NSBH) merger candidates in gravitational waves. These events are predicted to synthesize r-process elements1,2 creating optical/nea...
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Open AccessCross-modal visuo-haptic mental rotation: comparing objects between senses
The simple experience of a coherent percept while looking and touching an object conceals an intriguing issue: different senses encode and compare information in different modality-specific reference frames. W...
