- Space
- By Tudor Vieru
- October 4th, 2012
Nearby Star Is Surrounded by a Cloud of Comets
The discovery was made by a European space telescope
- Science Blog
- By Tudor Vieru
- October 2nd, 2012
Highest Possible Temperature Explained [Video]
New clip shows the top temperatures anything in the Universe can achieve
- Space
- By Tudor Vieru
- September 5th, 2012
Stellar Explosions Influence Temperatures in Earth's Atmosphere
New theory suggests interesting reason for why stars exploded
- Science Blog
- By Tudor Vieru
- August 24th, 2012
Video Depicts Supernova Progenitor Star System
Astronomers recently identified such a system for the first time
- Space
- By Tudor Vieru
- August 17th, 2012
Stellar Clusters Imaged as They Begin to Merge
Hubble captures rare cosmic event in exquisite detail
- Green/Eco Blog
- By Laura Sinpetru
- June 19th, 2012
Star-Watchers Now Party at the Grand Canyon
From 16-23 June, amateur astronomers gather here to look at the sky together
- Space
- By Tudor Vieru
- April 27th, 2012
Dust-Emitting Star Found by WISE Telescope
The object is now spreading the seeds of life in its neighborhood
- Space
- By Tudor Vieru
- April 18th, 2012
Runaway Planets Can Find New Homes Around Other Stars
Sometimes, they are fortunate enough to get caught by gravity
- Space
- By Tudor Vieru
- April 12th, 2012
Countless Comets Destroyed Around Fomalhaut Each Day
European instrument observes what can be described as a stellar “massacre”
- Space
- By Tudor Vieru
- April 12th, 2012
How Middleweight Stars Shed Their Mass Before Dying
This process remained mysterious to astronomers for many years
- Space
- By Tudor Vieru
- March 15th, 2012
Half a Billion Stars Visible in New WISE Catalog
The infrared light dataset covers the entire night sky
- Space
- By Tudor Vieru
- February 29th, 2012
The Sun Is a Comet Thief
It may have stolen many Oort Cloud objects from other stars
- Space
- By Tudor Vieru
- February 21st, 2012
Detecting a Primordial Black Hole As It Collides with a Star
New source of the elusive stuff discovered in theoretical study
- Science Blog
- By Tudor Vieru
- February 2nd, 2012
What Makes a Star's Surroundings Habitable
Distance from a star is not the only requisite, astrobiologists say
- Science Blog
- By Tudor Vieru
- December 29th, 2011
The Fastest Rotating Star Ever Found
The object lies in a dwarf galaxy orbiting the Milky Way
- Science Blog
- By Tudor Vieru
- November 22nd, 2011
Hubble Sees Impressive Star Cluster in Neighboring Galaxy
The photo also reveals weird green blob around the cluster
- Space
- By Tudor Vieru
- November 11th, 2011
NASA Shows Earliest Stars Were Smaller Than Suggested
Astronomers believed the early Universe was inhabited by behemoths