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Odd gamma ray burst may be from a smash-up between two dead stars

Astronomers have found a blast of gamma rays from space that seems to have been caused by two stellar corpses smashing together in a way that’s never been seen before

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We are finally closing in on the cosmic origins of the “OMG particle”

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We are finally closing in on the cosmic origins of the “OMG particle”

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Chemistry

Decades-old mystery about photosynthesis finally solved

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An image of an area of space filled with red and blue gas, and scattered stars

Space

Our galaxy’s black hole may have made a huge X-ray flare 205 years ago

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GRB 221009A surrounded by dust rings

Space

The most powerful space explosion ever seen keeps baffling astronomers

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The mummy of a boy digitally unwrapped in four stages

Humans

Egyptian boy mummy was buried with a ‘second heart’ made of gold

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The LCLS-II electron gun in a Berkeley Lab clean room where it was assembled. (Marilyn Chung/Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory)

Physics

The world's ultimate X-ray machine will start up in 2023

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An illustration of GRB 221009. A black hole drives powerful jets of particles traveling near the speed of light. The jets pierce through the star, emitting X-rays and gamma rays as they stream into space

Space

A weird gamma ray burst doesn't fit our understanding of the cosmos

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We may finally know how blazars act as cosmic particle accelerators

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Composite image showing GRB221009A

Space

Astronomers have just watched the most powerful explosion ever seen

A gamma ray burst about 2.4 billion light years away is being called “the BOAT” – the brightest of all time – and is so powerful it has even affected Earth’s atmosphere

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Space

Jet from neutron stars seems to travel seven times the speed of light

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Space

Gamma ray bursts could help unravel how fast the universe is expanding

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Space

Mysterious gamma rays at centre of Milky Way could be from pulsars

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Space

Baffling 'space cow' explosion was probably a failed supernova

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