The two narrow energy beams seen in the gamma ray burst poster reflect how they occur in real life, travelling in opposite directions from the colliding stellar corpses.

Who are you, dweller of this tiny stellar corpse?

These stellar deaths can leave behind neutron stars, which pack more mass than our Sun into a sphere roughly as wide as the island of Manhattan is long.

Trying to do stellar observations from Earth is like trying to do birdwatching from the bottom of a lake.

Knowing my post may help your (already stellar) writing makes me as happy as a flea in a doghouse!

Presented in the style of vintage horror movie advertisements, the new posters feature a dead galaxy, an explosive gamma ray burst caused by colliding stellar corpses, and ever-elusive dark matter.

The International Ultraviolet Explorer provided information about physical conditions in the central regions of distant galaxies that may contain black holes. It also provided scientists with more knowledge of the physical conditions in very hot stars, the effect of solar winds on the atmospheres of the planets in our solar system, and the loss of mass from stars when stellar winds and flares occur.