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Different star types “live” and “die” in different ways based on how much matter they started with and if they were born with siblings nearby.

As soon as it came online, ALMA began providing valuable information about extrasolar planetary systems at all stages of their evolution.

Neither a hole nor really black, a stellar black hole is actually the superdense remains of a very big star that imploded, violently collapsing in on itself, during a supernova.

From the Earth, a pulsar looks like a star that has a pulse, a rapid beat picked up only by radio telescopes.

We aim radio telescopes at the Sun, planets, moons, and planetesimals in our Solar System.

Dark Energy has become the largest factor in the equations that may govern the Universe.

To balance their speeds out to those distances from their massive central cores, the galaxies must be made of more stuff than just that which we can detect.

A galaxy is an island of stars floating on a plate of dark matter, or so the theory goes.

Quasars are cores of galaxies where a supermassive black hole is messily feeding.

On a clear, dark night, you can see a glowing stream that seems to split the sky. We have called it the Milky Way for thousands of years, and its exact nature was a mystery until less than a hundred years ago.