Tag: star

Some 450 light-years away in the constellation Taurus, a new planet is being born and astronomers using the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array ...

A star like our Sun is shown with an orbiting planet in the foreground in this ...

Astronomers working on the Kepler telescope believe that every 1 in 6 stars hosts at least an Earth-sized planet in ...

I gotta say, sometimes it absolutely baffles me to see the kind of complex studies astrophysicists do, and this is ...

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 ...

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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 ...

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 ...