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. ...
The most spectacular comet death ever
Every once in a while, the Sun gets a little hungry; in those times, it grabs on a little ...
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
[caption id="attachment_5432" align="alignnone" width="499" caption="An artist's impression of the coldest brown dwarf found so far, CFBDSIR 1458 10b captioned on ...
The star-diamond
Twinkle, twinkle, little star, How I wonder what you are! Up above the world so high, Like a diamond in ...
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 ...
NASA launches observatory to study sun
It's NASA's second launch in just 4 days (after Endeavour), and this time it's about the most advanced solar observatory ...
We now know the birth place of the biggest guitar in the galaxy
In case you're wondering, the biggest 'guitar' in our galaxy is in fact a pulsar that was nicknamed The Guitar ...
A Colourful Cosmic Jewel Box
Star clusters are among the ...
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 ...
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The largest stars in the Universe (that we’ve found so far)
Here's some of the largest, plumpest ones out there.
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