Journal: Nature

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    A 62-minute orbital period black widow binary in a wide hierarchical triple
    Over a dozen millisecond pulsars are ablating low-mass companions in close binary systems. In the original `black widow', the eight-hour orbital period...
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    A Be-type star with a black-hole companion
    Stellar-mass black holes have all been discovered through X-ray emission, which arises from the accretion of gas from their binary companions (this gas is...
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    A broadband thermal emission spectrum of the ultra-hot Jupiter WASP-18b
    Close-in giant exoplanets with temperatures greater than 2,000 K (`ultra-hot Jupiters') have been the subject of extensive efforts to determine their...
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    A candidate super-Earth planet orbiting near the snow line of Barnard's star
    Barnard's star is a red dwarf, and has the largest proper motion (apparent motion across the sky) of all known stars. At a distance of 1.8 parsecs1, it is the...
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    A dark jet dominates the power output of the stellar black hole Cygnus X-1
    Black holes undergoing accretion are thought to emit the bulk of their power in the X-ray band by releasing the gravitational potential energy of the infalling...
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    A dense 0.1-solar-mass star in a 51-minute-orbital-period eclipsing binary
    Of more than a thousand known cataclysmic variables (CVs), where a white dwarf is accreting from a hydrogen-rich star, only a dozen have orbital periods below...
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    A dust-obscured massive maximum-starburst galaxy at a redshift of 6.34
    Massive present-day early-type (elliptical and lenticular) galaxies probably gained the bulk of their stellar mass and heavy elements through intense, dust...
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    A giant planet candidate transiting a white dwarf
    Astronomers have discovered thousands of planets outside the Solar System 1, most of which orbit stars that will eventually evolve into red giants and then into...
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    A gravitational-wave standard siren measurement of the Hubble constant
    On 17 August 2017, the Advanced LIGO and Virgo detectors observed the gravitational-wave event GW170817—a strong signal from the merger of a binary neutron-star...