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Astrophile: Big blue star is an X-ray oddball

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By Jesse Emspak
| New Scientist Verified
Astrophile is our weekly column on curious cosmic objects, from the solar system to the far reaches of the multiverse Space 16 June 2014 By Jesse Emspak Object: Xi-1 Canis Majoris Superpower: Surprise X-ray pulses Sometimes monsters hide in plain sight, and it takes a hero with X-ray vision to find them. A European space telescope has spotted a massive star that is pulsing with brilliant X-rays.
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Black holes test the limits of Einstein's relativity

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By Jesse Emspak
| Astronomy Magazine Verified
Einstein's theory of general relativity replaced Newton's gravity. Now, gravitational wave observations of black holes might stretch the limits of Albert's masterpiece. By Jesse Emspak  | Published: Wednesday, September 05, 2018 On February 11, 2016, two teams of scientists announced the first observation of gravitational waves, a phenomenon that Albert Einstein’s general theory of relativity had predicted a century earlier.
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Passing star may have disturbed the solar system billions of years ago

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By Jesse Emspak
| New Scientist Verified
A passing star may have buzzed the solar system billions of years ago, sending thousands of small icy worlds beyond Neptune’s orbit careening into interstellar space and leaving others in wildly tilted paths around the sun. This scenario, dreamt up by Susanne Pfalzner at the Max Planck Institute for Radio Astronomy in Bonn, Germany and her colleagues, could explain some unusual features of the outer system.
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