News tagged with constellation puppis
Suzaku snaps first complete X-ray view of a galaxy cluster
The joint Japan-U.S. Suzaku mission is providing new insight into how assemblages of thousands of galaxies pull themselves together. For the first time, Suzaku has detected X-ray-emitting gas at a cluster's ...
May 28, 2009 |
4.4 / 5 (8) |
3
Search results for constellation puppis
Will V445 puppis become a Ia supernova?
As the “V” in the designation of V445 Puppis indicates, this star was a variable star located in the constellation of Puppis. It was a fairly ordinary periodic variable, although with a rather complex ...
Dec 06, 2010 |
4.2 / 5 (5) |
1
|
Hubble snaps sharp image of cosmic concoction (w/ Video)
(PhysOrg.com) -- A colourful star-forming region is featured in this stunning new NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope image of NGC 2467. Looking like a roiling cauldron of some exotic cosmic brew, huge clouds ...
Jul 13, 2010 |
4.6 / 5 (19) |
4
|
Ticking stellar time bomb identified (w/ Video)
(PhysOrg.com) -- "One of the major problems in modern astrophysics is the fact that we still do not know exactly what kinds of stellar system explode as a Type Ia supernova," says Patrick Woudt, from the University ...
Nov 17, 2009 |
4.8 / 5 (12) |
0
Warped debris disks around stars are blowin' in the wind (w/ Video)
(PhysOrg.com) -- The dust-filled disks where new planets may be forming around other stars occasionally take on some difficult-to-understand shapes. Now, a team led by John Debes at NASA's Goddard Space Flight ...
Aug 28, 2009 |
4.3 / 5 (3) |
1
Hottest Stars in Delicate Embrace by Spiral Arms
(PhysOrg.com) -- A team of scientists at the Royal Observatory of Belgium (ROB) announced today that the hottest and most massive stars are wrapped in spiraling waves of hot gas. These winding waves, which ...
Dec 16, 2008 |
4.6 / 5 (9) |
0
Light echoes whisper the distance to a star
Taking advantage of the presence of light echoes, a team of astronomers have used an ESO telescope to measure, at the 1% precision level, the distance of a Cepheid - a class of variable stars that constitutes ...
Feb 11, 2008 |
4.8 / 5 (25) |
1
The Colorful Demise of a Sun-Like Star
This image, taken by NASA's Hubble Space Telescope, shows the colorful "last hurrah" of a star like our Sun. The star is ending its life by casting off its outer layers of gas, which formed a cocoon around ...
Feb 13, 2007 |
4.7 / 5 (26) |
0
General relativity survives gruelling pulsar test -- Einstein at least 99.95 percent right
An international research team led by Prof. Michael Kramer of the University of Manchester's Jodrell Bank Observatory, UK, has used three years of observations of the "double pulsar", a unique pair of natural stellar clocks ...
Sep 13, 2006 |
4.8 / 5 (113) |
0
Trio of Neptunes and their belt
Using the ultra-precise HARPS spectrograph on ESO's 3.6-m telescope at La Silla (Chile), a team of European astronomers have discovered that a nearby star is host to three Neptune-mass planets. The innermost ...
May 17, 2006 |
4.3 / 5 (12) |
0
New Type of Cosmic Explosion More Powerful Than Supernovae
Astronomers have identified a new class of cosmic explosions that are more powerful than supernovae but considerably weaker than most gamma-ray bursts. The discovery strongly suggests a continuum between the two previous ...
Aug 05, 2004 |
not rated yet |
0
List of search results for constellation puppis
