<feed version="0.3" xml:lang="en-us" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom"><generator>Plime/1</generator><title>Pulsed heartbeat of a weird new type of star : ATOM 0.3</title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.plime.com/"/><tagline>Pulsed heartbeat of a weird new type of star : ATOM 0.3</tagline><author><name>www.plime.com</name><email>plime@plime.com</email></author><copyright>2009, www.plime.com.</copyright><modified>2009-12-01T14:16:37+01:00</modified><entry><title><![CDATA[Pulsed heartbeat of a weird new type of star]]></title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/44973/1/" /><id>44973</id><summary><![CDATA[Pulsed heartbeat of a weird new type of star]]></summary><issued>2007-12-21T10:52:29+01:00</issued><modified>2007-12-21T10:52:29+01:00</modified><content type="text/html" mode="escaped"><![CDATA[XMM-Newton has detected periodic X-ray emission, or the pulsed heartbeat of a weird new type of star. Collecting the X-rays from the so-called rotating radio transient has confirmed the nature of the underlying celestial object and given astronomers a new insight into these exotic objects.]]></content></entry><hr size='1' class='line' noshade/><div style='padding-top:20px;height:300px;margin-right:10px;float:left;'><script type="text/javascript"><!--
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</script></div><entry><title><![CDATA[Astronomers baffled by weird, fast-spinning pulsar]]></title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.plime.com/science/l/62001/1/" /><id>62001</id><summary><![CDATA[Astronomers baffled by weird, fast-spinning pulsar]]></summary><issued>2008-05-15T22:12:58+01:00</issued><modified>2008-05-15T22:12:58+01:00</modified><content type="text/html" mode="escaped"><![CDATA[Astronomers are baffled after finding an exotic type of star called a pulsar apparently locked in an elongated orbit around a star much like the sun -- an arrangement defying what had been known about such objects.]]></content></entry><entry><title><![CDATA[The drifting star: Astronomers 'listen' to an exoplanet-host star and find its birthplace]]></title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.plime.com/science/l/58616/1/" /><id>58616</id><summary><![CDATA[The drifting star: Astronomers 'listen' to an exoplanet-host star and find its birthplace]]></summary><issued>2008-04-17T00:09:23+01:00</issued><modified>2008-04-17T00:09:23+01:00</modified><content type="text/html" mode="escaped"><![CDATA[By studying in great detail the 'ringing' of a planet-harbouring star, a team of astronomers using ESO's 3.6-m telescope have shown that it must have drifted away from the metal-rich Hyades cluster. This discovery has implications for theories of star and planet formation, and for the dynamics of our Milky Way.]]></content></entry><entry><title><![CDATA[The Last Confessions of a Dying Star]]></title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.plime.com/science/l/53070/1/" /><id>53070</id><summary><![CDATA[The Last Confessions of a Dying Star]]></summary><issued>2008-03-04T23:26:29+01:00</issued><modified>2008-03-04T23:26:29+01:00</modified><content type="text/html" mode="escaped"><![CDATA[Probing a glowing bubble of gas and dust encircling a dying star, NASA's Hubble Space Telescope reveals a wealth of previously unseen structures. The object, called NGC 2371, is a planetary nebula, the glowing remains of a Sun-like star. The remnant star visible at the center of NGC 2371 is the super-hot core of the former red giant, now stripped of its outer layers.]]></content></entry><entry><title><![CDATA[Astronomers Spot Exploding Faraway Star]]></title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/19420/1/" /><id>19420</id><summary><![CDATA[Astronomers Spot Exploding Faraway Star]]></summary><issued>2007-05-07T23:26:52+01:00</issued><modified>2007-05-07T23:26:52+01:00</modified><content type="text/html" mode="escaped"><![CDATA[A massive exploding faraway star _ the brightest supernova astronomers have ever seen _ has scientists wondering whether a similar celestial fireworks show may light up the sky much closer to Earth sometime soon.]]></content></entry><entry><title><![CDATA[Star eats star and builds planets from the crumbs]]></title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.plime.com/science/l/50257/1/" /><id>50257</id><summary><![CDATA[Star eats star and builds planets from the crumbs]]></summary><issued>2008-02-12T08:44:26+01:00</issued><modified>2008-02-12T08:44:26+01:00</modified><content type="text/html" mode="escaped"><![CDATA[An unusual star may have swallowed its stellar companion and burped out a planet-forming cloud as a result, a new study reports. The star, called BP Piscium, is surrounded by a thick disc of gas and dust from which it appears to be sucking up new material at a prodigious rate.]]></content></entry><entry><title><![CDATA['Solar Flare' Detected From Star 150 Light Years Away]]></title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/44828/1/" /><id>44828</id><summary><![CDATA['Solar Flare' Detected From Star 150 Light Years Away]]></summary><issued>2007-12-20T08:38:28+01:00</issued><modified>2007-12-20T08:38:28+01:00</modified><content type="text/html" mode="escaped"><![CDATA[Using observations from ESO's VLT, astronomers were able for the first time to reconstruct the site of a flare on a solar-like star located 150 light years away. The study of this young star, nicknamed 'Speedy Mic' because of its fast rotation, will help scientists better understand the youth of our Sun.]]></content></entry><entry><title><![CDATA[WikiSky - Online Star Map]]></title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/13970/1/" /><id>13970</id><summary><![CDATA[WikiSky - Online Star Map]]></summary><issued>2007-03-23T16:35:11+01:00</issued><modified>2007-03-23T16:35:11+01:00</modified><content type="text/html" mode="escaped"><![CDATA[Wikisky is a draggable, zoomable, web-based star map. If you click on a star or other object, it brings upvall the information you could want on it, including recent articles and photos. That and much more.]]></content></entry><entry><title><![CDATA[Star Wars Vs. Star Trek]]></title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/83189/1/" /><id>83189</id><summary><![CDATA[Star Wars Vs. Star Trek]]></summary><issued>2008-12-01T00:16:15+01:00</issued><modified>2008-12-01T00:16:15+01:00</modified><content type="text/html" mode="escaped"><![CDATA[Star Wars Vs. Star Trek: The Infamous DMP Edition....]]></content></entry><entry><title><![CDATA[Powerful Explosions Suggest Neutron Star Missing Link]]></title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.plime.com/science/l/51656/1/" /><id>51656</id><summary><![CDATA[Powerful Explosions Suggest Neutron Star Missing Link]]></summary><issued>2008-02-22T04:14:33+01:00</issued><modified>2008-02-22T04:14:33+01:00</modified><content type="text/html" mode="escaped"><![CDATA[Observations from NASA&#8217;s Rossi X-ray Timing Explorer (RXTE) have revealed that the youngest known pulsing neutron star has thrown a temper tantrum. The collapsed star occasionally unleashes powerful bursts of X-rays, which are forcing astronomers to rethink the life cycle of neutron stars.]]></content></entry><entry><title><![CDATA[Is this the brightest star in the galaxy? Celestial body blazes with light of 3.2million suns]]></title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.plime.com/science/l/68929/1/" /><id>68929</id><summary><![CDATA[Is this the brightest star in the galaxy? Celestial body blazes with light of 3.2million suns]]></summary><issued>2008-07-16T09:20:17+01:00</issued><modified>2008-07-16T09:20:17+01:00</modified><content type="text/html" mode="escaped"><![CDATA[Astronomers believe they may have discovered the brightest star in the Milky Way amid a swirling cloud of colourful stellar dust.<br/><br/>Nicknamed the 'Peony nebula star', the celestial body blazes with the light of 3.2million suns in the centre of our galaxy.]]></content></entry><entry><title><![CDATA[Astronomers Discover Supergiant Star Spews Molecules Needed for Life]]></title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/28629/1/" /><id>28629</id><summary><![CDATA[Astronomers Discover Supergiant Star Spews Molecules Needed for Life]]></summary><issued>2007-07-24T00:23:24+01:00</issued><modified>2007-07-24T00:23:24+01:00</modified><content type="text/html" mode="escaped"><![CDATA[University of Arizona astronomers who are probing the oxygen-rich environment around a supergiant star with one of the world's most sensitive radio telescopes have discovered a score of molecules that include compounds needed for life.]]></content></entry><entry><title><![CDATA[Astronomers Find Highly Elliptical Disk Around Young Star]]></title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/28489/1/" /><id>28489</id><summary><![CDATA[Astronomers Find Highly Elliptical Disk Around Young Star]]></summary><issued>2007-07-23T00:05:57+01:00</issued><modified>2007-07-23T00:05:57+01:00</modified><content type="text/html" mode="escaped"><![CDATA[Astronomers using the Hubble Space Telescope and W. M. Keck Observatory have found a lopsided debris disk around a young star known as HD 15115. As seen from Earth, the edge-on disk resembles a needle sticking out from the star.]]></content></entry><entry><title><![CDATA[Your Birthday Star]]></title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/32625/1/" /><id>32625</id><summary><![CDATA[Your Birthday Star]]></summary><issued>2007-08-22T04:37:52+01:00</issued><modified>2007-08-22T04:37:52+01:00</modified><content type="text/html" mode="escaped"><![CDATA[Input your birthday and find your birthday star! A birthday star is a star whose light left said star about the time you were born. Mine is in the constellation Eridanus. It is called 40 Eridani in the Historia C&#339;lestis Britannica of John Flamsteed and Edmund Halley. It is called NS 0415-0739 A in the NStars database. It has visual magnitude 4.43 meaning that you could see this star with the naked eye in good viewing conditions.]]></content></entry><entry><title><![CDATA[News of the Weird]]></title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.plime.com/weird/l/65860/1/" /><id>65860</id><summary><![CDATA[News of the Weird]]></summary><issued>2008-06-18T23:59:01+01:00</issued><modified>2008-06-18T23:59:01+01:00</modified><content type="text/html" mode="escaped"><![CDATA[For some readers, News of the Weird is a light diversion from the serious reporting of the week. For others, though, it's a weekly chronicle of the alarming decline of civilization. Or a therapeutic personal benchmark (for reassurance that the problem is other people, not you). Or, for the few who actually wind up in News of the Weird, a monument to lives interestingly lived.<br/><br/><i>I hope it's not a dupe, I searched and could not find it</i>]]></content></entry><entry><title><![CDATA[Massive young star explodes 'before its time']]></title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.plime.com/science/l/101755/1/" /><id>101755</id><summary><![CDATA[Massive young star explodes 'before its time']]></summary><issued>2009-03-24T09:18:05+01:00</issued><modified>2009-03-24T09:18:05+01:00</modified><content type="text/html" mode="escaped"><![CDATA[A massive young star seems to have exploded before its time, new Hubble Space Telescope images reveal. The star, the heftiest to have been linked to a supernova explosion, could challenge models of when stellar furnaces end their lives.]]></content></entry><entry><title><![CDATA[Tiny Star Unleashes Huge Explosion]]></title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.plime.com/science/l/62439/1/" /><id>62439</id><summary><![CDATA[Tiny Star Unleashes Huge Explosion]]></summary><issued>2008-05-20T00:54:36+01:00</issued><modified>2008-05-20T00:54:36+01:00</modified><content type="text/html" mode="escaped"><![CDATA[A tiny star recently unleashed what is considered the brightest burst of light ever seen in the universe from a normal star. Shining with only 1 percent of the sun's light and boasting just a third of the sun's mass, this run-of-the-mill star previously was nothing to write home about.]]></content></entry><entry><title><![CDATA[You Can Re-Edit Star Wars]]></title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.plime.com/entertainment/l/127382/1/" /><id>127382</id><summary><![CDATA[You Can Re-Edit Star Wars]]></summary><issued>2009-07-11T12:30:33+01:00</issued><modified>2009-07-11T12:30:33+01:00</modified><content type="text/html" mode="escaped"><![CDATA[Star Wars Uncut is a web project where 472 fans each remake 15 seconds of Star Wars: A New Hope, and then the clips are assembled into one big, weird remake. The project is currently seeking participants... So you'd better get busy sewing that Chewbacca suit!<br/>(Let us know if you do it!)]]></content></entry><entry><title><![CDATA[Moon will block bright star Regulus]]></title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/39747/1/" /><id>39747</id><summary><![CDATA[Moon will block bright star Regulus]]></summary><issued>2007-10-27T07:14:55+01:00</issued><modified>2007-10-27T07:14:55+01:00</modified><content type="text/html" mode="escaped"><![CDATA[If you live in the southern or western parts of the United States, you'll have an opportunity on Nov. 3 to see a fat waning crescent moon gradually drift toward and ultimately hide the 1st-magnitude star, Regulus, the brightest star of the constellation Leo, the Lion.]]></content></entry><entry><title><![CDATA[Astronomer explains the star of Bethlehem]]></title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/44129/1/" /><id>44129</id><summary><![CDATA[Astronomer explains the star of Bethlehem]]></summary><issued>2007-12-13T20:48:06+01:00</issued><modified>2007-12-13T20:48:06+01:00</modified><content type="text/html" mode="escaped"><![CDATA[According to the Bible, when Jesus was born three Magi saw a star in the East that signaled the birth of a new king. But just what was it, from an astronomical point or view, that the Magi actually saw? Fred Grosse, a professor of physics and astronomy at Susquehanna University, gives scientific explanations for the appearance of the Star of Bethlehem.]]></content></entry><entry><title><![CDATA[New Type of Dying Star Discovered ]]></title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/42242/1/" /><id>42242</id><summary><![CDATA[New Type of Dying Star Discovered ]]></summary><issued>2007-11-21T21:31:14+01:00</issued><modified>2007-11-21T21:31:14+01:00</modified><content type="text/html" mode="escaped"><![CDATA[A rare new kind of star may have been discovered. It is much like the white dwarf our own sun should eventually become&#8212;save for a mysterious shroud of carbon ash. The findings could shed light on the life and death of stars, astronomers said.]]></content></entry></feed>