Items tagged with Star

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The Great Worldwide Star Count Tuesday, October 21st, 2008 - 13:58:04 - Ehud Rattner We humans have always pondered the heavens. Astronomy and physics have come out of our wonder at the points of light in the darkness. Scientists now... read more

How Dust Rings Point to Exo-Earths Saturday, October 11th, 2008 - 10:02:37 - Anuradha Menon Supercomputer simulations of dusty disks around sun-like stars show that planets nearly as small as Mars can create patterns that future telescopes... read more

Mysterious Object Disappears from Space Friday, October 10th, 2008 - 14:23:18 - Anuradha Menon Humans have been star-gazing for thousands of years but the surprises keep coming. Recently, members of the Supernova Cosmology Project, one of the... read more

Massive Planet-Sized Object Found Tuesday, October 7th, 2008 - 18:39:44 - Anuradha Menon COROT has discovered a massive planet-sized object orbiting its parent star closely, unlike anything ever spotted before. It is so exotic, that... read more

Hubble to be Installed with Unique Camera Friday, October 3rd, 2008 - 14:53:16 - Anuradha Menon Wide Field Camera 3, a new camera for the Hubble Space Telescope, to be installed by astronauts during the upcoming space shuttle servicing mission... read more

Astronomers Tune in to 'Radio Universe' Saturday, September 13th, 2008 - 14:45:43 - Anuradha Menon Astronomers at the School of Physical Sciences, University of Kent, have joined an innovative project that aims to address many of the key issues in... read more

March 19 Gamma-Ray Burst, Seen by Naked Eye Friday, September 12th, 2008 - 18:51:50 - Anuradha Menon A flash of light that blinded even small telescopes six months ago was the brightest astronomical explosion ever observed - visible to the naked eye... read more

Young Stars Near Black Holes Mystery Solved Friday, August 22nd, 2008 - 14:48:09 - Anuradha Menon The mystery of how young stars can form within the deep gravity of black holes has been solved by a team of astrophysicists at the Universities of St... read more

A Superfluid-Superconductor Relationship Wednesday, August 6th, 2008 - 20:53:51 - Anuradha Menon Scientists have studied superconductors and superfluids for decades. Now, researchers at Washington University in St. Louis have drawn the first... read more

Exoplanet Orbiting Sun-like Star Saturday, July 26th, 2008 - 21:45:15 - Anuradha Menon A team of European scientists working with COROT have discovered an exoplanet orbiting a star slightly more massive than the Sun. After just 555 days... read more

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