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Astronomers See Inside The Core of a Dying Star For the First Time, Confirm How Heavy Atoms Are Made

Astronomers have glimpsed the inner structure of a dying star in a rare kind of cosmic explosion called an “extremely stripped supernova”. In a paper published today in Nature, Steve Schulze of ...
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Astronomers have glimpsed the core of a dying star – confirming theories of how atoms are made

Orsola De Marco received funding from the Australian Research Council. She is affiliated (non-executive director of the Board) with Astronomy Australia Ltd. a not-for-profit company serving Australian ...
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Scientists Decipher the Sun’s Nuclear Fusion for the First Time

For the first time, scientists were able to directly measure the sort of nuclear fusion happening at the Sun’s core. The study, published Wednesday in the journal Nature, reveals that our star ...