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An international team of astronomers has uncovered the most unmistakable evidence yet that the powerful jets launched by ...

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Columbia Professor Brian Metzger helped other astronomers interpret their observations of the unexpected stellar event.

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When the most massive stars reach the ends of their lives, they blow up in spectacular supernova explosions, which seed the ...

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