• Space
  • By Tudor Vieru
  • October 4th, 2012
Nearby Star Is Surrounded by a Cloud of Comets

Nearby Star Is Surrounded by a Cloud of Comets

The discovery was made by a European space telescope

Highest Possible Temperature Explained [Video]

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

Stellar Explosions Influence Temperatures in Earth's Atmosphere

New theory suggests interesting reason for why stars exploded

Video Depicts Supernova Progenitor Star System

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

Stellar Clusters Imaged as They Begin to Merge

Hubble captures rare cosmic event in exquisite detail

Star-Watchers Now Party at the Grand Canyon

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Detecting a Primordial Black Hole As It Collides with a Star

New source of the elusive stuff discovered in theoretical study

What Makes a Star's Surroundings Habitable

What Makes a Star's Surroundings Habitable

Distance from a star is not the only requisite, astrobiologists say

The Fastest Rotating Star Ever Found

The Fastest Rotating Star Ever Found

The object lies in a dwarf galaxy orbiting the Milky Way

Hubble Sees Impressive Star Cluster in Neighboring Galaxy

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

NASA Shows Earliest Stars Were Smaller Than Suggested

Astronomers believed the early Universe was inhabited by behemoths

 
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