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Last Confessions Of A Dying Star
March 4, 2008 — Probing a glowing bubble of gas and dust encircling a dying star, NASA's Hubble Space Telescope reveals a wealth of previously unseen structures. The object, called NGC 2371, is a planetary nebula, ... > full story -
Young Stars In Their Baby Blanket Of Dust
February 12, 2008 — Newborn stars peek out from beneath their natal blanket of dust in this dynamic image of the Rho Ophiuchi dark cloud from NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope. Called "Rho Oph" by astronomers, it's one of ... > full story -
Light Echoes Whisper The Distance To A Star
February 10, 2008 — Taking advantage of the presence of light echoes, a team of astronomers have used an ESO telescope to measure, at the 1 percent precision level, the distance of a Cepheid -- a class of variable stars ... > full story -
Stardust Comet Dust Resembles Asteroid Materials
January 24, 2008 — Contrary to expectations for a small icy body, much of the comet dust returned by the Stardust mission formed very close to the young sun and was altered from the solar system's early materials. ... > full story -
Massive Gas Cloud Speeding Toward Collision With Milky Way
January 12, 2008 — A giant cloud of hydrogen gas is speeding toward a collision with our Milky Way Galaxy, and when it hits -- in less than 40 million years -- it may set off a spectacular burst of stellar ... > full story -
Circumstellar Dust Takes Flight In 'The Moth'
January 11, 2008 — What superficially resembles a giant moth floating in space is giving astronomers new insight into the formation and evolution of planetary systems. This is not your typical flying insect. It has a ... > full story -
Supernova Remnants Dance In The Large Magellanic Cloud
January 10, 2008 — The Gemini South Multi-Object Spectograph recently captured a dramatic image of a vast cloud complex named DEM L316 located in the Large Magellanic Cloud. The peanut-shaped nebula appears to be a ... > full story -
Stardust Formed Close To Sun
January 3, 2008 — Samples of the material picked up during the NASA Stardust mission indicate that parts of the comet Wild 2 actually formed in an area close to the sun. Analysis suggests that some of the Stardust ... > full story -
White Dwarf Pulses Like A Pulsar
January 2, 2008 — New observations have challenged scientists' conventional understanding of white dwarfs. Observers had believed white dwarfs were inert stellar corpses that slowly cool and fade away, but the new ... > full story -
10,000 Earths' Worth Of Fresh Dust Found Near Star Explosion
December 20, 2007 — Astronomers have at last found definitive evidence that the universe's first dust -- the celestial stuff that seeded future generations of stars and planets -- was forged in the explosions of massive ... > full story
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