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The complex circumstellar environment of supernova 2023ixf
The early evolution of a supernova (SN) can reveal information about the environment and the progenitor star. When a star explodes in vacuum, the first photons to escape from its surface appear as a brief, hou...
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A rotating white dwarf shows different compositions on its opposite faces
White dwarfs, the extremely dense remnants left behind by most stars after their death, are characterized by a mass comparable to that of the Sun compressed into the size of an Earth-like planet. In the result...
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An infrared transient from a star engulfing a planet
Planets with short orbital periods (roughly under 10 days) are common around stars like the Sun1,2. Stars expand as they evolve and thus we expect their close planetary companions to be engulfed, possibly powerin...
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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 very luminous jet from the disruption of a star by a massive black hole
Tidal disruption events (TDEs) are bursts of electromagnetic energy that are released when supermassive black holes at the centres of galaxies violently disrupt a star that passes too close1. TDEs provide a windo...
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A dense 0.1-solar-mass star in a 51-minute-orbital-period eclipsing binary
Of more than a thousand known cataclysmic variables (CVs), where a white dwarf is accreting from a hydrogen-rich star, only a dozen have orbital periods below 75 minutes1–9. One way to achieve these short periods...
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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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A WC/WO star exploding within an expanding carbon–oxygen–neon nebula
The final fate of massive stars, and the nature of the compact remnants they leave behind (black holes and neutron stars), are open questions in astrophysics. Many massive stars are stripped of their outer hyd...
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Author Correction: Discovery and confirmation of the shortest gamma-ray burst from a collapsar
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Discovery and confirmation of the shortest gamma-ray burst from a collapsar
Gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) are among the brightest and most energetic events in the Universe. The duration and hardness distribution of GRBs has two clusters1, now understood to reflect (at least) two different prog...
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Publisher Correction: A highly magnetized and rapidly rotating white dwarf as small as the Moon
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A highly magnetized and rapidly rotating white dwarf as small as the Moon
White dwarfs represent the last stage of evolution of stars with mass less than about eight times that of the Sun and, like other stars, are often found in binaries1,2. If the orbital period of the binary is shor...
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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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A fast radio burst associated with a Galactic magnetar
Since their discovery in 20071, much effort has been devoted to uncovering the sources of the extragalactic, millisecond-duration fast radio bursts (FRBs)2. A class of neutron stars known as magnetars is a leadin...
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A fast radio burst localized to a massive galaxy
Intense, millisecond-duration bursts of radio waves (named fast radio bursts) have been detected from beyond the Milky Way1. Their dispersion measures—which are greater than would be expected if they had propagat...
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General relativistic orbital decay in a seven-minute-orbital-period eclipsing binary system
General relativity1 predicts that short-orbital-period binaries emit considerable amounts of gravitational radiation. The upcoming Laser Interferometer Space Antenna2 (LISA) is expected to detect tens of thousand...
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From gamma-ray bursts to fast radio bursts
The field of gamma-ray burst astronomy arguably went through three decades of growing pains before reaching maturity. What development lessons can be learned for the adolescent field of fast radio burst astron...
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A UV resonance line echo from a shell around a hydrogen-poor superluminous supernova
Hydrogen-poor superluminous supernovae (SLSN-I) are a class of rare and energetic explosions that have been discovered in untargeted transient surveys in the past decade1,2. The progenitor stars and the physical ...
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A mildly relativistic wide-angle outflow in the neutron-star merger event GW170817
The observed electromagnetic emission from GW170817 suggests that a ‘cocoon’ of mildly relativistic material was released as a jet transferred its energy to the neutron-rich dynamical ejecta from the merger.
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Reproduction in the Shoot and Fruit Borer, Conogethes spp. (Crambidae: Lepidoptera): Strategizing Survival?
The neurohormonal regulatory process in Conogethes reproductive system is poorly understood. This has impeded research on bioecology and management of pest species of Conogethes. The reproduction in Conogethes is...
