Items tagged with Star

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Wild Weather on a Star-Skimming Planet Thursday, January 29th, 2009 - 14:35:02 - Anuradha Menon What would happen if, for a single day, the sun's light and heat were amplified a thousand times? While this sounds like the setup for a classic tale... read more

Wall Divides Cosmic Metropolis Wednesday, January 28th, 2009 - 12:09:22 - Anuradha Menon A new study unveils NGC 604, the largest region of star formation in the nearby galaxy M33, in its first deep, high-resolution view in X-rays. This... read more

Supermassive Black Holes 'Not Guilty' Sunday, January 25th, 2009 - 15:49:48 - Ehud Rattner A team of Yale University astronomers has discovered that galaxies stop forming stars long before their central supermassive black holes reach their... read more

Watch a Star Explode in 3D Friday, January 9th, 2009 - 18:14:20 - Anuradha Menon Using views captured by several orbiting and ground-based telescopes, an MIT researcher and her colleagues have produced the first fully... read more

NASA'S Telescope Unveils a Dozen New Pulsars Wednesday, January 7th, 2009 - 18:40:14 - Anuradha Menon NASA's Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope has discovered 12 new gamma-ray-only pulsars and has detected gamma-ray pulses from 18 others. The finds are... read more

Dead Stars Tell Story of Planet Birth Wednesday, January 7th, 2009 - 10:29:23 - Anuradha Menon Astronomers have turned to an unexpected place to study the evolution of planets -- dead stars. Observations made with NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope... read more

Solar Flare Surprise Wednesday, December 17th, 2008 - 16:12:19 - Anuradha Menon Solar flares are the most powerful explosions in the solar system. Packing a punch equal to a hundred million hydrogen bombs, they obliterate... read more

Carbon Dioxide Found on Extrasolar Planet Thursday, December 11th, 2008 - 10:29:18 - Anuradha Menon NASA's Hubble Space Telescope has discovered carbon dioxide in the atmosphere of a planet orbiting another star. This breakthrough is an important... read more

Turbulent Star-Forming Region Captured Wednesday, December 10th, 2008 - 10:06:17 - Anuradha Menon A new image from NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope shows a turbulent star-forming region, where rivers of gas and stellar winds are eroding thickets of... read more

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