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'Shockingly Bright' Burst of Gamma Rays from Dying Star in Distant Galaxy
May 3, 2013 — A record-setting blast of gamma rays from a dying star in a distant galaxy has wowed astronomers around the world. The eruption, which is classified as a gamma-ray burst, or GRB, and designated GRB ... > full story -
An Anarchic Region of Star Formation
May 2, 2013 — The Danish 1.54-meter telescope located at the European Southern Observatory's La Silla Observatory in Chile has captured a striking image of NGC 6559, an object that showcases the anarchy that ... > full story -
Colossal Hot Cloud Envelopes Colliding Galaxies
April 30, 2013 — Scientists have completed a detailed study of an enormous cloud of hot gas enveloping two large, colliding galaxies. This unusually large reservoir of gas contains as much mass as 10 billion Suns, ... > full story -
Herschel Completes Its 'Cool' Journey in Space
April 30, 2013 — The Herschel observatory, a European space telescope for which NASA helped build instruments and process data, has stopped making observations after running out of liquid coolant as expected. The ... > full story -
Astronomer Studies Far-Off Worlds Through 'Characterization by Proxy'
April 26, 2013 — An astronomer is using Earth's interstellar neighbors to learn the nature of certain stars too far away to be directly measured or observed, and the planets they may ... > full story -
Einstein's Gravity Theory Passes Toughest Test Yet
April 25, 2013 — A strange stellar pair nearly 7,000 light-years from Earth has provided physicists with a unique cosmic laboratory for studying the nature of gravity. The extremely strong gravity of a massive ... > full story -
Entire Galaxies Feel the Heat from Newborn Stars: Bursts of Star Birth Can Curtail Future Galaxy Growth
April 25, 2013 — Astronomers have shown for the first time that bursts of star formation have a major impact far beyond the boundaries of their host galaxy. These energetic events can affect galactic gas at distances ... > full story -
TRAPPIST Participated in the Detection of Ten Percent of All Transiting Exoplanets Known to Date
April 25, 2013 — Among the many planets detected orbiting other stars (exoplanets) over the last twenty years, a little less than three hundred periodically pass in front of their star. This is what astronomers call ... > full story -
Mysterious Hot Spots Observed in Cool Red Supergiant
April 24, 2013 — Astronomers have released a new image of the outer atmosphere of Betelgeuse – one of the nearest red supergiants to Earth – revealing the detailed structure of the matter being thrown off ... > full story -
Looking for Life by the Light of Dying Stars
April 24, 2013 — Astronomers have now demonstrated that with the advanced technology available in the next decade we should be able to detect biomarkers like oxygen and methane in the planets that orbit dead stars ... > full story
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