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Discovery of a Blue Supergiant Star Born in the Wild
April 10, 2013 — Astronomers have discovered a blue supergiant star located far beyond our Milky Way Galaxy in the constellation Virgo. Over 55 million years ago, the star emerged in an extremely wild environment, ... > full story -
Nanotechnology: Color Printing Reaches New Highs
April 10, 2013 — Color printing at the highest resolution possible is enabled by the use of arrays of metal-coated ... > full story -
Ghostly Green Bubble: Detailed Image of Planetary Nebula
April 10, 2013 — An intriguing new picture shows the glowing green planetary nebula IC 1295 surrounding a dim and dying star located about 3300 light-years away in the constellation of Scutum (The Shield). This is ... > full story -
Retired Star Found With Planets and Debris Disc
April 9, 2013 — The European Space Agency's Herschel space observatory has provided the first images of a dust belt -- produced by colliding comets or asteroids -- orbiting a subgiant star known to host a planetary ... > full story -
'Post-Mortem' Yields Insight Into Kepler's Supernova
April 8, 2013 — An exploding star observed in 1604 by the German astronomer Johannes Kepler held a greater fraction of heavy elements than the sun, according to an analysis of X-ray observations from the Japan-led ... > full story -
NASA Selects Explorer Investigations for Formulation
April 8, 2013 — NASA's Astrophysics Explorer Program has selected two missions for launch in 2017: a planet-hunting satellite and an International Space Station instrument to observe X-rays from ... > full story -
TESS Project Will Launch Telescopes to Perform Full-Sky Search for Transiting Exoplanets
April 8, 2013 — NASA has selected the Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS) project for a planned launch in 2017. The $200 million project will use an array of wide-field cameras to perform an all-sky ... > full story -
NASA Taps the Power of Zombie Stars in Two-in-One Instrument
April 8, 2013 — Neutron stars have been called the zombies of the cosmos. They shine even though they're technically dead, occasionally feeding on neighboring stars if they venture too close. Interestingly, these ... > full story -
Dead Star Warps Light of Companion Red Star, Astronomers Say
April 5, 2013 — Astronomers have observed the effects of a dead star bending the light of its companion red star. The findings are among the first detections of this effect -- a result predicted by Einstein's theory ... > full story -
Green Pea Galaxies Could Help Astronomers Understand Early Universe
April 3, 2013 — The rare Green Pea galaxies discovered by the general public in 2007 could help confirm astronomers' understanding of reionization, a pivotal stage in the evolution of the early ... > full story
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