Beautifully colored ‘seagull nebula’ imaged
Nebulae are among the most brightest objects in the sky, and besides their fantastic halo in the night sky, which ...
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The star that should not exist
If you look at this picture, you will probably see what can only be described as an unremarkable, even faint ...
Black hole caught eating a star
For the first time in human history we have witnessed a black hole in the act of 'eating' a star ...
Galaxy is full of starless Jupiter-like planets
Finding new planets is interesting an remarkable, but finding a whole new class of planets - that's definitely something extraordinary. ...
Mysterious cosmic blast triggered by black hole
On the 28th of March the Swift telescope observed a peculiar gamma-ray blast in a distant corner of the visible ...
Coldest star so far found – not hotter than a cup of coffee
Astronomers usually classify stellar objects by a spectra going from hotter to cooler, using the letters O, B, A, F, ...
No people, Betelgeuse is not going supernova
First of all, I have no idea how this rumour started, but a number of people signaled this already; the ...
Herschel reveals the hidden side of star birth
The first touchable scientific results of the Herschel infrared space observatory are spectacular indeed; not only is it showing previously ...
A Colourful Cosmic Jewel Box
Star clusters are among the pretties things you can see, when it comes to astrophysical observations. Recently, ESO provided some ...
The 8 coolest ways the Earth might be destroyed
We've all seen at least one movie in which our planet is destroyed, but most of them were quite repetitive ...
Three ‘Super-Earths’ Found Orbiting One Star
It's not a bird, it's not a planet, it's not Jupiter... it's super earth. Actually, there's 3 of them. What ...
