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An Older Vega: New Insights About the Star All Others Are Measured by
December 11, 2012 — Vega, a star astronomers have used as a touchstone to measure other stars' brightness for thousands of years, may be more than 200 million years older than previously ... > full story -
Hypergiant Star Amazes for 30 Years
December 9, 2012 — Astronomers have published the results of a 30-year study of an extraordinary hypergiant star. They have found that the surface temperature of the super-luminous star HR 8752 increased by about 3000 ... > full story -
New Chemical Reaction Could Explain How Stars Form, Evolve, and Eventually Die
December 7, 2012 — Researchers have discovered a molecular-level interaction that science had puzzled over for decades but had never seen. That discovery, it turns out, may redefine how science views chemical compound ... > full story -
X-Ray Vision Can Reveal Moment of Birth of Violent Supernovae
December 7, 2012 — Astronomers have uncovered new evidence that suggests that X-ray detectors in space could be the first to witness new supernovae that signal the death of massive ... > full story -
Image of the Carina Nebula Marks Inauguration of VLT Survey Telescope
December 6, 2012 — A spectacular new image of the star-forming Carina Nebula has been captured by the VLT Survey Telescope at the European Southern Observatory's Paranal Observatory and released on the occasion of the ... > full story -
Searching for the Best Black Hole Recipe
December 6, 2012 — In this holiday season of home cooking and carefully-honed recipes, some astronomers are asking: what is the best mix of ingredients for stars to make the largest number of plump black holes? They ... > full story -
Astronomers Discover and 'Weigh' Infant Solar System: Young Star With Rotating Dust Disk Is Youngest Still-Forming Planetary System Yet Found
December 5, 2012 — A young star no more than 300,000 years old is surrounded by a disk of dust and gas rotating in the same manner as planets in our Solar System, making it the youngest such infant system yet ... > full story -
Andromeda Wants You! Astronomers Ask Public to Find Star Clusters in Hubble Images
December 5, 2012 — Astronomers are seeking volunteers to explore the galaxy next door, Andromeda. The Andromeda Project will use people power to examine thousands of Hubble Space Telescope images of the galaxy to ... > full story -
Census of the Invisible Universe Reveals Extraordinary High Star-Formation Rates Across History of the Universe
December 4, 2012 — By combining the observing powers of ESA’s Herschel space observatory and the ground-based Keck telescopes, astronomers have characterized hundreds of previously unseen starburst galaxies, ... > full story -
Search for Life Suggests Planetary Systems More Habitable Than Ours
December 3, 2012 — Scattered around the Milky Way are stars that resemble our own sun—but a new study is finding that any planets orbiting those stars may very well be hotter and more dynamic than ... > full story
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