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Supernova Radioisotopes Show Sun Was Born In Star Cluster, Scientists Say
October 4, 2006 — The death of a massive nearby star billions of years ago offers evidence the sun was born in a star cluster, say astronomers at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Rather than being an ... > full story -
AKARI's View On Birth And Death Of Stars
August 30, 2006 — AKARI, the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) infrared astronomical satellite with ESA participation, is continuing its survey of the sky and its mapping of our cosmos in infrared light. New ... > full story -
NASA's Spitzer Digs Up Troves Of Possible Solar Systems In Orion
August 14, 2006 — Astronomers have long scrutinized the vast and layered clouds of the Orion nebula, an industrious star-making factory visible to the naked eye in the sword of the famous hunter constellation. Yet, ... > full story -
Large And Small Stars In Harmonious Coexistence
August 14, 2006 — The latest photo from the Hubble Space Telescope, presented at the 2006 General Assembly of the International Astronomical Union in Prague this week, shows a star forming region in the Large ... > full story -
A Sub-Stellar Jonah: Brown Dwarf Survives Being Swallowed
August 14, 2006 — Using ESO's Very Large Telescope, astronomers have discovered a rather unusual system, in which two planet-size stars, of different colors, orbit each other. One is a rather hot white dwarf, weighing ... > full story -
Planet-Forming Disks Might Put The Brakes On Stars
July 24, 2006 — Astronomers using NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope have found evidence that dusty disks of planet-forming material tug on and slow down the young, whirling stars they surround. Young stars are full ... > full story -
Sub-Millimetre Astronomy In Full Swing On Southern Skies
July 20, 2006 — The Atacama Pathfinder Experiment (APEX) 12-m sub-millimetre telescope lives up to the ambitions of the scientists by providing access to the "Cold Universe" with unprecedented sensitivity and image ... > full story -
Young Supernova Remnants Not Dusty Enough, According To Astronomers
June 7, 2006 — The dust ejected by the explosions of supermassive stars is thought to be the main source of fuel for new stars. But all supernova remnants in our galaxy have too little dust compared with model ... > full story -
Case Of The Neutron Star With A Wayward Wake
June 1, 2006 — A long observation with NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory revealed important new details of a neutron star that is spewing out a wake of high-energy particles as it races through space. The deduced ... > full story -
First Pictures From The Map Of The Universe Mission
May 22, 2006 — An ambitious mission by the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) to make a new, high resolution map of the universe has just successfully returned its first pictures, and UK team members are ... > full story
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