Hundreds of millions — or even billions — of years after planets would have initially formed around two unusual stars, a second wave of planetesimal and planet formation appears to be taking place. "This is a new class of stars, ones that display conditions now ripe for formation of a second generation of planets, long, long after the stars themselves formed." picked by AutumnLotus 2 years ago

In the finale of Big Brother 7, the evicted houseguests of the past seven weeks have the chance to decide the fate of one of the two final contestants. The winner gets $500,000 and the runner up gets $50,000. The winner was Mike Boogie Malin picked by musicgirldani 3 years ago

Astronomers announced today that stars of a recently discovered type, dubbed ultracool subdwarfs, take some pretty wild rides as they orbit around the Milky Way, following paths that are very different from those of typical stars. One of them may actually be a visitor that originated in another galaxy. picked by AutumnLotus 6 months ago

An 18-year-old Belgian girl is suing a Romanian tattoo artist over the 56 stars on her face. She says she requested three small stars, but the tattoo artist didn’t understand her French and English. Rouslan Toumaniantz, who runs the tattoo parlour called The Tattoo Box in Courtrai, denies her claim. He said she knew ‘exactly what she wanted’. This story says she was drunk du... read full post picked by bingo 5 months ago

A man in Cocoa, Fla., told police the only way to get his brother to stop talking was to stab him. picked by AutumnLotus 2 years ago

This is the second best start in franchise history. (One more win will tie best start)

Check out the video for a phenominal shoot-out shot by Ryan Shannon and even more phenominal stop by Turco! picked by icepigs 3 years ago

A class of "failed" star called a brown dwarf emits beams of radiation that are thousands of times brighter than any released by the Sun. picked by AutumnLotus 3 years ago

Einstein's predicted warping of space-time has been discovered around neutron stars, the most dense observable matter in the universe. picked by AutumnLotus 2 years ago

The European Southern Observatory's Very Large Telescope has given astronomers their most detailed look at how infant stars feed off the disks of gas and dust that swirl around them as they grow. picked by AutumnLotus 1 year ago

Newborn stars peek out from beneath their natal blanket of dust in this dynamic image of the Rho Ophiuchi dark cloud from NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope. Called "Rho Oph" by astronomers, it's one of the closest star-forming regions to our own solar system. Located near the constellations Scorpius and Ophiuchus, the nebula is about 407 light years away from Earth. picked by AutumnLotus 2 years ago

The colorful, intricate shapes in these NASA Hubble Space Telescope images reveal how the glowing gas ejected by dying Sun-like stars evolves dramatically over time. picked by AutumnLotus 2 years ago

A quartet of stars has been discovered in an intimate cosmic dance, swirling around each other within a region about the same as Jupiter's orbit around the sun. Astronomers say a gaseous disk might have once engulfed and pushed the stars into their tight orbits. picked by AutumnLotus 2 years ago

A pair of newfound stars orbit each other so closely that they share material, taking on the appearance of a giant peanut in space. picked by AutumnLotus 2 years ago

A collection of pictures of stars from now looking like stars from then. picked by pocksucket 7 months ago

Invisible magnetic field lines twisted like long ropes of DNA help stars spiral into life. New stars form from enormous clouds of gas and dust collapse under their own gravity into dense spheres. The packed cores are ignited by thermonuclear reactions. As they collapse, the clouds rotate, and like an ice skater pulling in his arms while spinning, rotation speed increases as the collapsing cloud ge... read full post picked by AutumnLotus 2 years ago

Newborn stars shine like celestial sparklers in a new portrait of the nearby Triangulum Galaxy – the most detailed ultraviolet image of a galaxy ever taken. Astronomers will use the image, taken by NASA's Swift telescope, to create an "age map" of the galaxy's components to understand how galaxies evolve over time. picked by AutumnLotus 2 years ago

Images from NASA's Hubble Space Telescope reveal 14 young, runaway stars plowing through regions of dense interstellar gas, creating brilliant arrowhead structures and trailing tails of glowing gas. picked by AutumnLotus 11 months ago

Two sisters and the brother who killed them with a kitchen knife will share a single funeral service and be buried together. A sad update picked by suebe 8 months ago

The Dallas Stars President, Jim Lites, tries to explain to Stars fans and season ticket holders why sitting on your hands during the free agent period is a good thing. picked by icepigs 2 years ago

If you were rooting for David Cook last Idol season, you'll remember his obvious love for his brother, Adam. Adam lost his fight with brain cancer during the night. He was a father, husband, and had been a lawyer. picked by meggysue 7 months ago