News tagged with carbon stars
Team finds buckyballs grow larger by 'eating' vaporized carbon
(Phys.org) -- Fullerenes were first discovered back in 1985 by a team of physicists vaporizing graphite in helium gas, one class of which, the buckminsterfullerene (C60) named after Buckminster Fuller and ...
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Space diamonds reveal supernova origins
Space diamonds may now be an astrophysicist's best friend.
Feb 15, 2012 |
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Gaseous ring around young star raises questions
(PhysOrg.com) -- Astronomers have detected a mysterious ring of carbon monoxide gas around the young star V1052 Cen, which is about 700 light years away in the southern constellation Centaurus. The ring is ...
Jan 19, 2012 |
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MOST microsatellite reveals true nature of mysterious dust-forming Wolf-Rayet binary CV Ser
(PhysOrg.com) -- Using the Canadian MOST microsatellite, a team of researchers from the Universite de Montreal and the Centre de Recherche en Astrophysique du Quebec has made a stunning observation. As they'll report at ...
May 31, 2011 |
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Astronomers find weird, warm spot on an exoplanet
(PhysOrg.com) -- Observations from NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope reveal a distant planet with a warm spot in the wrong place.
Oct 19, 2010 |
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Very Large Telescope detects first superstorm on exoplanet (w/ Video)
Astronomers have measured a superstorm for the first time in the atmosphere of an exoplanet, the well-studied "hot Jupiter" HD209458b. The very high-precision observations of carbon monoxide gas show that ...
Jun 23, 2010 |
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Determining chemical composition of a type of red giant star with more carbon than oxygen
What are the peculiar type-R stars made? Where does the carbon present in their shell come from? These are the questions to be solved by a research work conducted by scientists of the department of Theoretical ...
Jan 14, 2010 |
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The 'sci' behind the 'fi'
As the voyagers of the Starship Enterprise boldly went to explore new worlds week after week on Star Trek, they used a host of futuristic technologies — including tricorders, holodecks, teleportation systems ...
Dec 11, 2009 |
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Studying a Star Before it is Born
(PhysOrg.com) -- The first phase of a star's formation are thought to begin deep inside a natal cloud of gas and dust. In the earliest stages, material coalesces under the influence of gravity into so-called ...
Dec 04, 2009 |
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Stellar Explosion Displays Massive Carbon Footprint
(PhysOrg.com) -- While humans are still struggling to get rid of unwanted carbon it appears that the heavens are really rather good at it. New research by astrophysicists at the University of Warwick has discovered that a ...
Jun 01, 2009 |
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Galactic Dust Bunnies Found to Contain Carbon After All
(PhysOrg.com) -- Using NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope, researchers have found evidence suggesting that stars rich in carbon complex molecules may form at the center of our Milky Way galaxy.
Mar 12, 2009 |
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Dust around a primitive star sheds new light on universe's origins
(PhysOrg.com) -- A Cornell-led team of astronomers has observed dust forming around a dying star in a nearby galaxy, giving a glimpse into the early universe and enlivening a debate about the origins of all ...
Jan 15, 2009 |
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