Ever since they were discovered in 2018, fast blue optical transients (FBOTs) have utterly surprised and completely confounded both observational and theoretical astrophysicists. So hot that they glow ...
For almost a decade, scientists have been baffled by a series of mysterious blue flashes emerging from deep space. Since the first lit up astronomers' telescopes in 2018, only 14 of these strange ...
This composite image features X-ray, ultraviolet, optical, and near-infrared data of the luminous fast blue optical transient (LFBOT) named AT 2024wpp. The transient is the bright spot at the upper ...
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