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September 9, 2016

New Method to Estimate More Accurate Distances Between Planetary Nebulae and the Earth

Apr. 11, 2016 — A way of estimating more accurate distances to the thousands of so-called 'planetary nebulae' dispersed across our Galaxy has just been announced by a team of three ... read more

A Source Accelerating Galactic Cosmic Rays to Unprecedented Energy Discovered at the Center of the Milky Way

Mar. 17, 2016 — For more than ten years the H.E.S.S. observatory in Namibia, run by an international collaboration of 42 institutions in 12 countries, has been mapping the center of our galaxy in very-high-energy ... read more

Rosetta: Type of Ice Reveals the Age of Comets

Mar. 9, 2016 — The ice buried inside comet 67P/ Churyumov-Gerasimenko is mainly found in crystalline form, which implies that it originated in the protosolar nebula and is therefore the same age as the Solar ... read more

Dust Grains Could Be Remnants of Stellar Explosions Billions of Years Ago

Mar. 8, 2016 — Microscopic dust particles have been found in meteoritic material on Earth, particles that were likely formed in stellar explosions that occurred long before the creation of our star, the sun. ... read more

Birth of Rare Massive Stars Deep Within Crimson Gas Clouds

Mar. 2, 2016 — In a huge new image clouds of crimson gas are illuminated by rare, massive stars that have only recently ignited and are still buried deep in thick dust clouds. These scorching-hot, very young stars ... read more

Caught in the Act: Astronomers Find a Rare Supernova 'Impostor' in a Nearby Galaxy

Feb. 12, 2016 — University of Washington astronomers have identified a rare type of supernova 'impostor' in a nearby galaxy, with implications for how scientists look at the short, complex lives of massive ... read more

A Star's Moment in the Spotlight

Feb. 10, 2016 — A newly formed star lights up the surrounding clouds in this new image from ESO's La Silla Observatory in Chile. Dust particles in the vast clouds that surround the star HD 97300 diffuse its ... read more

A Violent Wind Blown from the Heart of a Galaxy Tells the Tale of a Merger

Feb. 4, 2016 — Astronomers have revealed the detailed structure of a massive ionized gas outflow streaming from the starburst galaxy NGC 6240. The light-collecting power and high spatial resolution of Subaru ... read more

The Frigid 'Flying Saucer': Unexpectedly Cold Grains in Planet-Forming Disc

Feb. 3, 2016 — Astronomers have made the first direct measurement of the temperature of the large dust grains in the outer parts of a planet-forming disc around a young star. By applying a novel technique to ... read more

Stellar Parenting: Making New Stars by 'Adopting' Stray Cosmic Gases

Jan. 27, 2016 — Astronomers have for the first time found young populations of stars within globular clusters that have apparently developed courtesy of star-forming gas flowing in from outside of the clusters ... read more

Dazzling Diamonds in the Sky

Jan. 21, 2016 — Single stars are often overlooked in favor of their larger cosmic cousins -- but when they join forces, they create truly breathtaking scenes to rival even the most glowing of nebulae or swirling of ... read more

Most Energetic Light Ever Observed from a Few Kilometers Large Star

Jan. 12, 2016 — Scientists working with the Major Atmospheric Gamma-ray Imaging Cherenkov (MAGIC) observatory have reported the discovery of the most energetic pulsed emission radiation ever detected from the ... read more

NASA's Fermi Space Telescope Sharpens Its High-Energy Vision

Jan. 8, 2016 — Major improvements to methods used to process observations from NASA's Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope have yielded an expanded, higher-quality set of data that allows astronomers to produce the ... read more

Hubble Sees the Force Awakening in a Newborn Star

Dec. 17, 2015 — Just in time for the release of the movie "Star Wars Episode VII: The Force Awakens," NASA's Hubble Space Telescope has photographed what looks like a cosmic, double-bladed ... read more

Alternative Stellar Lifestyle: Common, Curious, Solved at Last

Dec. 8, 2015 — Half of all stars are in binaries -- pairs of stars that orbit each other. Half of binary stars orbit so close that gravitational interaction significantly affects their evolution and demise. Today, ... read more

Curious 'Inkblot' Star Outed for Trolling the Astronomers

Dec. 3, 2015 — New images of an intriguing red giant star, known as CW Leo, have turned the usual astronomy narrative on its head, with scrutiny focussed not only on the stars but also on the astronomers who study ... read more

Student Discovers Stellar Chamaeleon That Had the Astronomers Fooled for Years

Dec. 4, 2015 — It is the brightest infrared star in the Northern sky, but a student has found that astronomers have been mistakenly interpreting the dust in the environment of a famous star that lies 450 light ... read more

Astronomers Closer to Explaining Mysterious Radio Pulses from Outer Space

Dec. 2, 2015 — Astronomers have tied the origin of a Fast Radio Burst to a highly magnetized, gas-filled region of space, providing a new hint in the decade-long quest to explain the mysterious radio ... read more

Aging Star's Weight Loss Secret Revealed

Nov. 25, 2015 — A team of astronomers has captured the most detailed images ever of the hypergiant star VY Canis Majoris. These observations show how the unexpectedly large size of the particles of dust surrounding ... read more

Ghostly and Beautiful: 'Planetary Nebulae' Get More Meaningful Physical Presence

Nov. 20, 2015 — A way of estimating more accurate distances to the thousands of so-called planetary nebulae dispersed across our Galaxy has been announced by a team of three ... read more
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