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What Is a Supernova? How Stars Die in a Cosmic Explosion
A supernova is one of the most violent events in the universe — the explosive death of a star that can briefly outshine an entire galaxy and seed space with the elements that make life possible.
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Pulsars: The Cosmic Lighthouses That Keep Better Time Than Atomic Clocks
Spinning hundreds of times a second, these dead stars sweep beams of radiation across the cosmos with such precision that we could use them to navigate between the stars.
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Magnetars: The Most Powerful Magnets in the Universe
A teaspoon of one weighs billions of tons, and its magnetic field is so strong it could erase every credit card on Earth from halfway to the Moon. Meet the magnetar.
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White Dwarfs: The Slowly Fading Embers of Stars Like Our Sun
When a star like the Sun dies, it leaves behind a glowing ember the size of Earth but as heavy as a star — cooling over billions of years toward eternal darkness.
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