Utilizing the stellar evolution code named Modules for Experiments in Stellar Astrophysics (MESA), Chinese astronomers have ...

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For the first time, scientists have reconstructed the full history of a galaxy outside the Milky Way using chemical clues. By ...

Solar coronal shocks often produce Type II solar radio bursts, also known as slow-drifting bursts, which travel outward from the Sun at speeds of around 1,000 km per second.

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By reading the chemical “fingerprints” of a distant galaxy, astronomers reconstructed its 12-billion-year evolution. This new ...

The oxygen in a galaxy does not sit still. It spreads, thins out, piles up, and leaves behind a record of where stars formed, ...

The findings, published in The Astrophysical Journal, provide fresh insights into ultraluminous X-ray sources (ULXs) — among the brightest and most enigmatic objects known in astrophysics.

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As an undergraduate astrophysics student at Peking University, I met Professor Charles Townes, the Nobel Prize-winning ...