Star News

Posted November 26, 2008:

• Hubble Captures Outstanding View Of Mammoth Stars
• Hubble Resolves Puzzle About Loner Starburst Galaxy

Posted November 25, 2008:

• Strangulation Of Spiral Galaxies: ‘Missing Link’ Discovered
• Binary Star Explosion Inside Nebula Challenges Star Theory

Posted November 24, 2008:

• Mystery Of Missing Hydrogen: Apparent Absence From Distant Galaxies Puzzles Astronomers

Posted November 21, 2008:

• Iconic Rings And Flares Of Galaxies Created By Violent, Intergalactic Collisions
• Beta Pictoris Planet Finally Imaged?

Posted November 19, 2008:

• Black Holes Are The Rhythm At The Heart Of Galaxies
• New Planet Discovered Orbiting Dangerously Close To Giant Star

Posted November 13, 2008:

• First Direct Images Of A Planetary Family Around A Normal Star

Posted November 11, 2008:

• Telescope Views Glowing Stellar Nurseries

Posted November 8, 2008:

• Pool Of Distant Galaxies: Deepest Ultraviolet Image Of The Universe Yet

Posted November 6, 2008:

• Fingers, Loops And Bays In The Crab Nebula's Pulsar Wind Viewed By Chandra X-ray Observatory

Posted November 3, 2008:

• 'Ghost Of Mirach' Materializes In Space Telescope Image

Posted October 27, 2008:

• Closest Planetary System Hosts Two Asteroid Belts

Posted October 21, 2008:

• Vast Stellar Nursery: Claret-colored Cloud With A Massive Heart

Posted October 20, 2008:

• Star Count Goes Global

Posted October 17, 2008:

• First Gamma-ray-only Pulsar Observation Opens New Window On Stellar Evolution

Posted October 16, 2008:

• Colossal Black Holes Common In Early Universe, Spectacular Galactic Collision Suggests
• Earth-like Planets May Be Easier To Find Than Previously Thought: Young Planets Stay Hotter Longer
• Magellanic Group And Its Seven Dwarf Galaxies

Posted October 12, 2008:

• How Dust Rings Point To Exo-Earths With Supercomputer's Help

Posted October 10, 2008:

• Astronomers Get Best View Yet Of Infant Stars At Feeding Time

Posted October 9, 2008:

• When It Comes To Galaxies, Diversity Is Everywhere
• Star Born From The Wind: Unique Multi-wavelength Portrait Of Star Birth

Posted October 8, 2008:

• Stars Stop Forming When Big Galaxies Collide

Posted October 7, 2008:

• Is It A Planet? Exotic Object Orbiting Star Stirs Exoplanet Classification Rethink

Posted October 2, 2008:

• More Star Births Than Astronomers Have Calculated

Posted October 1, 2008:

• Infrared Echoes Give NASA's Spitzer A Supernova Flashback

Posted September 27, 2008:

• Wild, Hidden Cousin Of SN 1987A: Powerful Supernova Caught By Web Of Telescopes

Posted September 25, 2008:

• Missing Link Of Neutron Stars? Bizarre Hibernating Stellar Magnet Discovered

Posted September 24, 2008:

• Two Planets Suffer Violent Collision
• Finding Fireflies Next To A Lighthouse: New Optics Technology To Study Alien Worlds

Posted September 23, 2008:

• Future Looks Bright For Interferometry

Posted September 21, 2008:

• Astrophysicists 'Weigh' Galaxy's Most Massive Star

Posted September 20, 2008:

• NASA's Swift Catches Farthest Ever Gamma-Ray Burst

Posted September 19, 2008:

• Astronomers Discover Most Dark Matter-dominated Galaxy In Universe

Posted September 16, 2008:

• Immigrant Sun: Our Star Could Be Far From Where It Started In Milky Way

Posted September 15, 2008:

• First Picture Of Likely Planet Around Sun-like Star

Posted September 12, 2008:

• Beautiful Death: Halos Of Planetary Nebulae Revealed

Posted September 11, 2008:

• 1843 Stellar Eruption May Be New Type Of Star Explosion

Posted September 10, 2008:

• Upper Mass Limit For Black Holes?

Posted September 9, 2008:

• Presence Of Planets In Young Gas Discs Hinted At Using Clever New Astronomical Method

Posted September 3, 2008:

• Thousand-ruby Galaxy: Pinwheel Shines In The Darkness

Posted August 29, 2008:

• Origin Of High Energy Emission From Crab Nebula Identified

Posted August 25, 2008:

• Generations Of Stars Pose For Family Portrait

Posted August 22, 2008:

• Stellar Stillbirths: Brown Dwarfs Revealed As Third Class Of Celestial Bodies After Stars And Planets
• Mystery Of Young Stars Near Black Holes Solved

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