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Star eats star and builds planets from the crumbs Posted: 2 years ago by AutumnLotus
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.
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The Last Confessions of a Dying Star Posted: 2 years ago by AutumnLotus
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.
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The drifting star: Astronomers 'listen' to an exoplanet-host star and find its birthplace Posted: 2 years ago by AutumnLotus
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.
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WikiSky - Online Star Map Posted: 3 years ago by 2manyusernames
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.
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Star Wars Vs. Star Trek Posted: 12 months ago by Bornbad
Star Wars Vs. Star Trek: The Infamous DMP Edition....
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Massive young star explodes 'before its time' Posted: 8 months ago by AutumnLotus
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.
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Moon will block bright star Regulus Posted: 2 years ago by AutumnLotus
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.
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Astronomer explains the star of Bethlehem Posted: 2 years ago by AutumnLotus
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.
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Astronomers Spot Exploding Faraway Star Posted: 3 years ago by AutumnLotus
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.
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Tiny Star Unleashes Huge Explosion Posted: 2 years ago by AutumnLotus
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.
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Your Birthday Star Posted: 2 years ago by KingKoopa
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 Cœlestis 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.
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'Solar Flare' Detected From Star 150 Light Years Away Posted: 2 years ago by AutumnLotus
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.
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Secrets of Sun-like star probed Posted: 2 years ago by AutumnLotus
It confirms that Altair, one of the brightest stars in the night sky, is a rapidly spinning, non-spherical body.
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What really happened when the Death Star blew up. Posted: 3 years ago by ReBoot
"Oh, A Cherry Coke..." Hilarious, albeit slightly NSFW language.
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Star Trek With The Sound Stylings of Jefferson Airplane's "White Rabbit". Posted: 3 years ago by LatueOfStiberty
This is the weirdest thing I've seen all day. Enjoy folks.
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What happenened in Star Wars after the Death Star blew up? Posted: 3 years ago by jaxomlotus
Another classic Robot Chicken clip.
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Is this the brightest star in the galaxy? Celestial body blazes with light of 3.2million suns Posted: 1 year ago by AutumnLotus
Astronomers believe they may have discovered the brightest star in the Milky Way amid a swirling cloud of colourful stellar dust.
Nicknamed the 'Peony nebula star', the celestial body blazes with the light of 3.2million suns in the centre of our galaxy.
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Sun-like star flips its magnetic field Posted: 2 years ago by AutumnLotus
An international group of astronomers reported today that they have discovered that the Sun-like star tau Bootis flipped its magnetic field from north to south sometime during the last year. It has been known for many years that the Sun's magnetic field changes its direction every 11 years, but this is this is the first time that such a change has been observed in another star.
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Jets Spiral in 'Reverse Whirlpool' from Star Posted: 2 years ago by AutumnLotus
Astronomers have observed for the first time a jet of matter spiraling outward from an infant star, as if a lengthy strand of curly pasta. The enormous jet, which shoots out in two directions, is rocketing material away from the so-called protostar and into interstellar space at more than "supersonic speeds."
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Scientists Discover Record Fifth Planet Orbiting Nearby Star Posted: 2 years ago by AutumnLotus
Astronomers have announced the discovery of a fifth planet circling 55 Cancri, a star beyond our solar system. The star now holds the record for number of confirmed extrasolar planets orbiting in a planetary system.
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