Tag: star

Nebulae are among the most brightest objects in the sky, and besides their fantastic halo in the night sky, which ...

If you look at this picture, you will probably see what can only be described as an unremarkable, even faint ...

For the first time in human history we have witnessed a black hole in the act of 'eating' a star ...

Finding new planets is interesting an remarkable, but finding a whole new class of planets - that's definitely something extraordinary. ...

Every once in a while, the Sun gets a little hungry; in those times, it grabs on a little comet ...

On the 28th of March the Swift telescope observed a peculiar gamma-ray blast in a distant corner of the visible ...

Astronomers usually classify stellar objects by a spectra going from hotter to cooler, using the letters O, B, A, F, ...

Twinkle, twinkle, little star, How I wonder what you are! Up above the world so high, Like a diamond in ...

First of all, I have no idea how this rumour started, but a number of people signaled this already; the ...

The first touchable scientific results of the Herschel infrared space observatory are spectacular indeed; not only is it showing previously ...

It's NASA's second launch in just 4 days (after Endeavour), and this time it's about the most advanced solar observatory ...

In case you're wondering, the biggest 'guitar' in our galaxy is in fact a pulsar that was nicknamed The Guitar ...

Star clusters are among the pretties things you can see, when it comes to astrophysical observations. Recently, ESO provided some ...

We've all seen at least one movie in which our planet is destroyed, but most of them were quite repetitive ...

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 ...