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The "burp" is traveling at half the speed of light.
The European Space Agency released its treasure trove of stars.
Twinkle, twinkle, little star.
This will teach us a lot about how the element forms in the Universe.
Space is full of surprises.
I have it on very good authority that it's more than 20 degrees, for sure.
Up close and per-Sun-al.
Why not start with a bang, eh?
Stars come in many shapes and flavors.
A new study describes a technique that could be used to find wormholes.
We still don't know what dark energy *is*, but we found out another thing it isn't.
The other star we've found so far has so little iron -- a key indicator that it was forged close to the dawn of the universe.
The solar system is very different from our own.
The temperature around the sun is millions of times hotter than the sun's surface itself.
It was tens of thousands of times more massive than the ones our Sun puts out.
Now, that's a first!
Our galaxy is like a phoenix.
The planet is almost as hot as the Sun.a
Gluttony? Tsk tsk tsk.
Kind of puts things into perspective, doesn't it?
Space -- the prettiest frontier.
All babies are adorable, right?
Weighing without using a scale.
An incredibly fruitful mission sheds new secrets about the Milky Way.
The findings might help piece together the evolution of the universe.
If you happened to be alive 70,000 years ago, you'd be in for quite a show.
Giving "family dinner" a whole new meaning.
Turns out, planet farts are just like ours, but with chlorine!
It sounds like the plot of a bad movie -- but it's just science.
Greedy!
If there's one thing that black holes do extremely well, it's drawing things to them and destroying them.
Seeing is believing.
The European Space Agency's Planck satellite has revealed some information which may force us to rethink the evolution of the early Universe.
This space snow could help scientists better understand planet formation and evolution.
This disposable battery runs on bacteria and folds like an origami ninja star. Sold!
NASA astronauts have discovered a lonely planetary-like mass floating on its own, without a solar system. Imagine a galaxy, riddled with countless solar systems. Then zoom in slowly on a solar system – how do you picture it? There’s probably a star at the center, and several planets around it. That’s generally where we feel […]
A spectacular image captured by the Hubble Space Telescope's Wide Field Planetary Camera 2 (WFPC2) gives us a glimpse into how the Sun will look at its death.
Many ancient civilizations made astronomical notes, but according to researchers, this is the earliest historical document of naked eye observations on a variable star – Algol. Variable stars are stars with a varying brightness (as seen from Earth), and they probably held a special place in Egyptian astronomy – they made careful notes on these […]
This celestial lightsaber does not lie in a galaxy far, far away, but rather inside our home galaxy.
While the windy and overcast weather of a stormy day isn't surprising on telluric planets, it's not something most of us readily associate with stars. But it does happen -- the best evidence for this is W1906+40, a distant dwarf star recently described in a study published in the Astrophysical Journal.
A team of Argentinian astronomers, peering up in the night's sky from the Astronomical Observatory of Córdoba has found a new, young lithium-rich giant star that they designated KIC 9821622. And they can't explain where that lithium comes from.
It's likely not aliens, but it could be - and it's really, really strange.
A novel mathematical model can weigh the mass of a pulsar - a rapidly rotating magnetized neutran star - using principles of nuclear physics, rather than gravity. Up until now, the mass of a star could only be determined in relation with other bodies, based on the gravitational pull these exerted. Now, using the new model scientists will be able to study pulsars in isolation, allowing for more precise measurements than ever before.
The gargantuan cluster is 9.8 billion light years away from us, houses at least 27 galaxies and has a combined mass equal to 400 trillion Suns.
A chance discovery has provided experimental evidence that stars may generate sound. While he was examining the interaction of an ultra-intense laser with a plasma target, John Parsley from the University of York found that interfering plasma generates a series of pressure pulses - in other words, sounds.
Astronomers have discovered a star racing at a incredible pace of 2.6 million miles an hour (4.2 million kilometers an hour), making it the fastest moving star discovered thus far. It's so fast that it should exit our galaxy and turn into an intergalactic rogue. It doesn't stop here. Such celestial oddities are believed to be spurred in motion by the extreme gravitational tugs found in the vecinity of supermassive black holes, such as the one found at the core of the Milky Way. The new found road runner, however, was most likely flung outward by a Type Ia supernova, one of the most powerful and brightest bursts of energy in the universe. Little is know about such stellar explosions, and the hypervelocity star might submit some valuable clues.
Some 450 light-years away in the constellation Taurus, a new planet is being born and astronomers using the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) in Chile were there to capture the moment. It’s the most detailed picture documenting a planetary-forming system. The cutest planetary baby picture “This is truly one of the most remarkable images ever seen at these […]
In what’s considered the first find out of a slew to follow, a team of astronomers have identified a star that originated out of the same matter as our own sun. In lack of a better analogy, the two are siblings and probably share many more sisters. Apart from telling us where in the galaxy […]
Astronomers working on the Kepler telescope believe that every 1 in 6 stars hosts at least an Earth-sized planet in a close orbit, raising the number of such planets in our galaxy to 17 billion. Finding planets Astrophysicists also announced 461 new planet candidates discovered by the telescope; this raises the number of planets discovered […]
I gotta say, sometimes it absolutely baffles me to see the kind of complex studies astrophysicists do, and this is definitely one of them. The light from the first stars in the Universe is still lingering around in the cosmos, and researchers have found a new way to capture it: using ultra-bright galaxies that act […]
