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Born-Again Star Foreshadows Fate of Solar System
November 15, 2012 — Astronomers have found evidence for a dying Sun-like star coming briefly back to life after casting its gassy shells out into space, mimicking the possible fate our own Solar System faces in a few ... > full story -
Life and Death in a Star-Forming Cloud
November 14, 2012 — The aftershock of a stellar explosion rippling through space is captured in this new view of supernova remnant W44, which combines far-infrared and X-ray data from ESA's Herschel and XMM-Newton space ... > full story -
Cosmic Sprinklers Explained: Odd Pair of Aging Stars Sculpt Spectacular Shape of Planetary Nebula
November 8, 2012 — Astronomers have discovered a pair of stars orbiting each other at the center of one of the most remarkable examples of a planetary nebula. The new result confirms a long-debated theory about what ... > full storyMore: -
Satellite Still Shows Sandy's Remnant Clouds Over Eastern Canada and the Northeastern U.S.
November 2, 2012 — Satellite imagery from Nov. 2 showed that Sandy's remnant clouds continue to linger over Canada and the northeastern ... > full story -
Hubble Sees a Planetary Nebula in the Making
October 11, 2012 — The Universe is filled with mysterious objects. Many of them are as strange as they are beautiful. Among these, planetary nebulae are probably one of the most fascinating objects to behold in the ... > full story -
Sweeping X-Ray Imaging Survey of Dying Stars Is 'Uncharted Territory'
October 10, 2012 — The death throes of dying stars are the focus of a sweeping new survey using NASA's Chandra X-ray satellite observatory. More than two dozen astronomers have aligned their research goals to use ... > full story -
Surprising Spiral Structure Spotted by Astronomers
October 10, 2012 — Astronomers have discovered a surprising spiral structure in the gas around the red giant star R Sculptoris. This means that there is probably a previously unseen companion star orbiting the star. ... > full storyMore: -
Large Water Reservoirs at the Dawn of Stellar Birth
October 9, 2012 — The European Space Agency's Herschel space observatory has discovered enough water vapor to fill Earth's oceans more than 2000 times over, in a gas and dust cloud that is on the verge of collapsing ... > full story -
How Pulsars Slow Down With Age
October 8, 2012 — Researchers have developed a model which explains how the spin of a pulsar slows down as the star gets older. A pulsar is a highly magnetized rotating neutron star which was formed from the remains ... > full story -
NASA's Swift Satellite Discovers a New Black Hole in Milky Way Galaxy
October 5, 2012 — NASA's Swift satellite recently detected a rising tide of high-energy X-rays from a source toward the center of our Milky Way galaxy. The outburst, produced by a rare X-ray nova, announced the ... > full story
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