Astronomers scouting an ancient gas cloud known as the Leo Ring have discovered that the formation houses forming stars, even though it lacks most known necessary elements that support this process, such as heavy elements and dark matter. The scientists have been puzzled by the way the young stars formed, and have hy... |
19 February 2009
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Researchers from the University of Montreal, Canada, discovered that the giant star is also accompanied by another huge "sister," weighing 89 times more than our sun. The way stars are formed is known only in theory, based on previous observations and on the limits of science, which proposes models stating that ... |
23 September 2008
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There's a reason why the Hubble telescope was placed in orbit around Earth, and it's a pretty good one too. The lack of any interference from the planet's atmosphere allows it to see objects that modern ground-based telescopes probably never will - such as a newly discovered galaxy that seems to be fil... |
9 July 2008
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The Antennae Galaxy is one of the closest and most studied galaxy mergers in the universe. It consists of two gravitationally interacting galaxies dubbed NGC 4038 and NGC 4039 that collided with one another a couple of hundred million years into the past. New observations made by researchers from the European Souther... |
9 May 2008
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Unless you haven't noticed yet, the Moon is in a waxing crescent phase since Sunday. On the night of 6 April, the Moon revealed itself in the sky as a 2 percent crescent into the western regions above the horizon. Last night the Moon appeared in a 6 percent crescent phase while rising into a slightly higher posi... |
8 April 2008
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Westerlund 2 is believed to be the youngest star cluster in the Milky Way, with an estimated age of about one to two million years. Is is located about 20,000 light years away from Earth in the general direction of the Carina constellation. However, not much is known about this cluster due to the fact that it is surr... |
24 January 2008
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Located at about 12 million light years away in the so-called Arp's Loop, the strange stellar structures are wondering alone through intergalactic space, while most stellar clusters are usually included into galaxies or orbit in their vicinity. It seems that these particular clusters have originated from a galac... |
9 January 2008
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New images captured by NASA's Hubble Space Telescope show how white dwarfs are kicked from the place of the original star, when they form. While observing the NGC 6397 globular star cluster, which consists of a dense accumulation of stars, Hubble has spotted a white dwarf traveling at relatively high speed. Most... |
4 December 2007
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Observations made on a star cluster, situated only 100 light years from the core of the Milky Way, suggest that this group of stars is rushing towards the center of the galaxy at phenomenal speeds, deepening the mystery related to the most massive body within our galaxy, the supermassive black hole situated at its ce... |
28 November 2007
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New models regarding the solar system formation argue that certain solar systems might exist without a central star, or might have incredibly small, faint stars. The evidence was found while studying models of miniature versions of the solar system, results suggesting the other existing solar systems would not necess... |
22 November 2007
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Rocky planets similar to our own could be forming in the Pleiades cluster, astronomers reported on Wednesday. HD 23514, a star within the cluster is surrounded by a number of hot dust particles that could form the building block necessary to build planets. The discovery of the dust cloud, is the first evidence that r... |
15 November 2007
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Stars evolve in the universe in large groups, which astronomers call clusters, from clouds of gas. At the beginning of the universe a few seconds after the Big Bang, molecular hydrogen and helium formed the only known matter to exist. As different temperature variations and 'defects' in the structure of the... |
30 October 2007
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