News tagged with light stars
Baby stars in the Rosette cloud
Herschel's latest image reveals the formation of previously unseen large stars, each one up to ten times the mass of our Sun. These are the stars that will influence where and how the next generation of stars ...
Apr 12, 2010 |
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Astronomers See Historical Supernova From a New Angle (w/ Video)
(PhysOrg.com) -- Since Galileo first pointed a telescope at the sky 400 years ago, a myriad of technological advances have allowed astronomers to look at very faint objects, very distant objects, and even ...
Mar 31, 2010 |
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An Avalanche of Asteroids
Imagine you're a Brontosaurus with your face in a prehistoric tree top, munching on fresh leaves. Your relatives have ruled planet Earth for more than 150 million years. Huge and strong, you feel invincible. ...
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Mar 29, 2010 |
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Seeing is believing
(PhysOrg.com) -- Whenever you look up at the stars you are looking back in time, as light from even our closest neighbour, Alpha Centauri, started its journey to Earth more than four years ago. It is a phenomenon ...
Mar 24, 2010 |
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WISE Captures a Cosmic Rose
(PhysOrg.com) -- A new infrared image from NASA's Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer, or WISE, shows a cosmic rosebud blossoming with new stars. The stars, called the Berkeley 59 cluster, are the blue dots ...
Mar 16, 2010 |
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How to hunt for exoplanets
A new report launched by the Institute of Physics (IOP) Exoplanets - The search for planets beyond our solar system explains how new technological advances have seen the discovery of more than 400 exoplanets to date, a number ...
Mar 02, 2010 |
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Orion in a New Ligh (w/ Video)
(PhysOrg.com) -- The Orion Nebula reveals many of its hidden secrets in a dramatic image taken by ESO’s new VISTA survey telescope. The telescope’s huge field of view can show the full splendour of the whole ...
Feb 10, 2010 |
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Solar System Shield
Water vapor in planet-forming disks may block ultraviolet radiation from destroying water and other important molecules for life, according to new calculations.
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Jan 14, 2010 |
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Radio pulses from pulsar appear to move faster than light
(PhysOrg.com) -- Laboratory experiments in the last few decades have shown that some things can appear to move faster than light without contradicting Einstein's special theory of relativity, but now astrophysicists ...
Jan 14, 2010 |
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Astronomers spot 'super-Earth' 80 light years away
US astronomers have detected the second smallest exoplanet ever discovered with a mass just four times heavier than the Earth, adding to a growing number of low-mass planets dubbed "super-Earths."
Jan 08, 2010 |
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WISE Eye Spies First Glimpse of the Starry Sky
(PhysOrg.com) -- NASA's Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer, or WISE, has captured its first look at the starry sky that it will soon begin surveying in infrared light.
Jan 06, 2010 |
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Flaring Young Stars
(PhysOrg.com) -- The constellation of Vela (visible only from the southern hemisphere) contains a set of giant clouds of gas and dust known collectively as the Vela Molecular complex.
Jan 04, 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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Fermi Telescope Peers Deep into Microquasar (w/ Video)
(PhysOrg.com) -- NASA's Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope has made the first unambiguous detection of high-energy gamma-rays from an enigmatic binary system known as Cygnus X-3. The system pairs a hot, massive ...
Nov 27, 2009 |
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Rapid star formation spotted in 'stellar nurseries' of infant galaxies
The Universe's infant galaxies enjoyed rapid growth spurts forming stars like our sun at a rate of up to 50 stars a year, according to scientists at Durham University.
Nov 11, 2009 |
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