<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" ?><xml><meta><title>plime.com : plime.com : Search Results : star : ATOM 0.3</title><link>http://www.plime.com/</link><description>You can use this XML spec to create a desktop widget or other application (i.e. Flash visualization). Please share it with us in our forum and we'll link it here!</description><language>en-us</language></meta><items><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[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[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[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['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[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[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[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[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[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[Secrets of Sun-like star probed]]></title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/22326/1/" /><id>22326</id><summary><![CDATA[Secrets of Sun-like star probed]]></summary><issued>2007-06-01T09:34:30+01:00</issued><modified>2007-06-01T09:34:30+01:00</modified><content type="text/html" mode="escaped"><![CDATA[It confirms that Altair, one of the brightest stars in the night sky, is a rapidly spinning, non-spherical body.]]></content></entry><entry><title><![CDATA[What really happened when the Death Star blew up.]]></title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/20237/1/" /><id>20237</id><summary><![CDATA[What really happened when the Death Star blew up.]]></summary><issued>2007-05-14T01:41:31+01:00</issued><modified>2007-05-14T01:41:31+01:00</modified><content type="text/html" mode="escaped"><![CDATA[&quot;Oh, A Cherry Coke...&quot;  Hilarious, albeit slightly NSFW language.]]></content></entry><entry><title><![CDATA[Star Trek With The Sound Stylings of Jefferson Airplane's &quot;White Rabbit&quot;.]]></title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/9973/1/" /><id>9973</id><summary><![CDATA[Star Trek With The Sound Stylings of Jefferson Airplane's &quot;White Rabbit&quot;.]]></summary><issued>2007-02-02T18:38:03+01:00</issued><modified>2007-02-02T18:38:03+01:00</modified><content type="text/html" mode="escaped"><![CDATA[This is the weirdest thing I've seen all day. Enjoy folks.]]></content></entry><entry><title><![CDATA[Star Wars Photoshopping Project]]></title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/21758/1/" /><id>21758</id><summary><![CDATA[Star Wars Photoshopping Project]]></summary><issued>2007-05-29T12:01:42+01:00</issued><modified>2007-05-29T12:01:42+01:00</modified><content type="text/html" mode="escaped"><![CDATA[How much fun can be had with just one frame of <i>Star Wars</i>? Well, as it happens, a lot of fun. This is a Flash collection of Photoshopped images, based on just that one frame. The static page is <a class="plime" href="/redir.p?http://www.bloggerheads.com/star_wars/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">here</a>.]]></content></entry><entry><title><![CDATA[Damon gets Hollywood Walk of Fame star ]]></title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/29105/1/" /><id>29105</id><summary><![CDATA[Damon gets Hollywood Walk of Fame star ]]></summary><issued>2007-07-26T22:27:17+01:00</issued><modified>2007-07-26T22:27:17+01:00</modified><content type="text/html" mode="escaped"><![CDATA[Matt Damon is honored with a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.]]></content></entry><entry><title><![CDATA[Zombie Star Spins Like Crazy]]></title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.plime.com/science/l/89259/1/" /><id>89259</id><summary><![CDATA[Zombie Star Spins Like Crazy]]></summary><issued>2009-01-14T07:56:22+01:00</issued><modified>2009-01-14T07:56:22+01:00</modified><content type="text/html" mode="escaped"><![CDATA[The fading glow of a &quot;zombie&quot; star reveals that its body remains plenty active, as seen in an incredible rotation rate.]]></content></entry><entry><title><![CDATA[India's First Porn Star Dies?]]></title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.plime.com/sex/l/128798/1/" /><id>128798</id><summary><![CDATA[India's First Porn Star Dies?]]></summary><issued>2009-07-23T16:20:53+01:00</issued><modified>2009-07-23T16:20:53+01:00</modified><content type="text/html" mode="escaped"><![CDATA[In India, porn is illegal, however, some smart internet geeks decided to create Savita Bhabhi. She has since become a cartoon internet porn star sensation. Savita Bhabhi, is based off the fantasy of having sex with a hot sister in law, and looks like a cross between wonder woman, Jessica Rabbit, and  Padma Lakshmi.  Now the Indian government is potentially banning sexy Savita, so it seems this hot Bhabhi will be no more.<br/><a class="plime" href="/redir.p?http://www.plime.com/l/111668/1/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">Related</a>]]></content></entry><entry><title><![CDATA[Black Hole Rips Apart Screaming Star]]></title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.plime.com/science/l/60778/1/" /><id>60778</id><summary><![CDATA[Black Hole Rips Apart Screaming Star]]></summary><issued>2008-05-06T08:04:48+01:00</issued><modified>2008-05-06T08:04:48+01:00</modified><content type="text/html" mode="escaped"><![CDATA[In a distant galaxy, a star orbiting a massive central black hole strays too close to the insatiable giant and is torn apart. But before it can be devoured, the star lets out one last scream in a flare of light that slowly echoes across the galaxy. Astronomers on Earth pick up this faint call and use it to map the nucleus of the galaxy from which it emanated.]]></content></entry></items></xml>