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Star Born From The Wind: Unique Multi-Wavelength Portrait Of Star Birth
October 8, 2008 — Telescopes on the ground and in space have teamed up to compose a colorful image that offers a fresh look at the history of the star-studded region NGC 346. This new, ethereal portrait, in which ... > full story -
More Star Births Than Astronomers Have Calculated
October 1, 2008 — More newborn stars are apparently emerging around the universe than previously assumed. Researchers have now published a paper in the journal Nature explaining this discrepancy. Their study has ... > full story -
Infrared Echoes Give NASA's Spitzer A Supernova Flashback
October 1, 2008 — Hot spots near the shattered remains of an exploded star are echoing the blast's first moments, say scientists using data from NASA's Spitzer Space ... > full story -
New Clues To Oxygen At The Origin Of The Solar System
September 15, 2008 — Oxygen is the most abundant element on Earth, accounting for almost half the planet's mass. Of its three stable isotopes, oxygen 16 makes up 99.762 percent of oxygen on Earth, while heavier oxygen 17 ... > full story -
Beautiful Death: Halos Of Planetary Nebulae Revealed
September 11, 2008 — Stars without enough mass to turn into exploding supernovae end their lives blowing away most of their mass in a non-explosive, but intense stellar wind. Only a hot stellar core remains in the form ... > full story -
1843 Stellar Eruption May Be New Type Of Star Explosion
September 10, 2008 — Eta Carinae, a bright, variable star in the southern sky that is the most luminous known star in the Milky Way Galaxy, underwent a major eruption 145 years ago that may be the first example of a new ... > full story -
Theory Of Sun's Role In Formation Of Solar System Questioned
September 4, 2008 — A strange mix of oxygen found in a stony meteorite that exploded over Pueblito de Allende, Mexico nearly 40 years ago has puzzled scientists ever since. Small flecks of minerals lodged in the stone ... > full story -
Origin Of High Energy Emission From Crab Nebula Identified
August 28, 2008 — Another piece of the jigsaw in understanding how neutron stars work has been put in place following the discovery by scientists of the origin of the high energy emission from rotation-powered ... > full story -
Colorful Star Birth Region Near Tarantula Nebula Unveiled On Hubble's 100,000th Orbit Milestone
August 11, 2008 — During Hubble's 100,000th orbit around the Earth, it peered into a small portion of the nebula near the star cluster NGC 2074. The region is a firestorm of raw stellar creation, perhaps triggered by ... > full story -
Brightest Star In The Galaxy Has New Competition
July 15, 2008 — A contender for the title of brightest star in our Milky Way galaxy has been unearthed in the dusty metropolis of the galaxy's center. Nicknamed the "Peony nebula star," the bright stellar bulb was ... > full story
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