Star News

Posted November 24, 2009:

• Spitzer Telescope Observes Baby Brown Dwarf

Posted November 21, 2009:

• Watching a Cannibal Galaxy Dine

Posted November 17, 2009:

• 'Vampire Star': Ticking Stellar Time Bomb Identified

Posted November 16, 2009:

• Close-Up Movie Shows Hidden Details in the Birth of Super-Suns

Posted November 13, 2009:

• Two Earth-Sized Bodies With Oxygen-Rich Atmospheres Found, but They're Stars Not Planets

Posted November 12, 2009:

• Rapid Star Formation Spotted in 'Stellar Nurseries' of Infant Galaxies
• Exoplanets Clue To Sun's Curious Chemistry

Posted November 11, 2009:

• Seeing Stars, Proba-2 Platform Passes Its First Health Check

Posted November 10, 2009:

• Middleweight Black Hole: Swift, XMM-Newton Satellites Tune Into X-Ray Source

Posted November 9, 2009:

• 'Dropouts' Pinpoint Earliest Galaxies
• Unsettled Youth: Spitzer Observes A Chaotic Planetary System

Posted November 8, 2009:

• Hubble Image Showcases Star Birth In M83, The Southern Pinwheel

Posted November 6, 2009:

• The CoRoT Satellite : 3 More Years To Hunt For Planets And To Listen To The Music Of Stars

Posted November 5, 2009:

• Carbon Atmosphere Discovered On Neutron Star

Posted November 2, 2009:

• NASA's Fermi Telescope Detects Gamma Rays From 'Star Factories' In Other Galaxies

Posted October 30, 2009:

• Opening Up A Colorful Cosmic Jewel Box

Posted October 29, 2009:

• Physicist Makes New High-Resolution Panorama Of Milky Way
• Blast From The Past: Most Distant Stellar Object Gives Clues About Early Universe

Posted October 24, 2009:

• Galileo's Notebooks May Reveal Secrets Of New Planet

Posted October 19, 2009:

• Towards Other Earths: 32 New Exoplanets Found

Posted October 14, 2009:

• Milky Way's Tiny But Tough Galactic Neighbor
• Bizarre Galaxy Is Result Of Pair Of Spiral Galaxies Smashing Together

Posted October 6, 2009:

• Dirty Stars Make Good Solar System Hosts

Posted October 2, 2009:

• Herschel Views Deep-Space Pearls On A Cosmic String

Posted September 30, 2009:

• 'Ram Pressure' Stripping Galaxies, Hubble Space Telescope Scientists Find

Posted September 28, 2009:

• Sea Level Stargazing: Astronomers Make Key Sighting With Florida Telescope

Posted September 25, 2009:

• Twin Keck Telescopes Probe Dual Dust Disks

Posted September 24, 2009:

• NASA's Spitzer Spots Clump Of Swirling Planetary Material

Posted September 23, 2009:

• Computer Code Gives Astrophysicists First Full Simulation Of Star's Final Hours

Posted September 22, 2009:

• New Vista Of Milky Way Center Unveiled
• In Search Of Dark Asteroids (And Other Sneaky Things)

Posted September 21, 2009:

• Exotic Life Beyond Life? Looking For Life As We Don't Know It

Posted September 19, 2009:

• Invading Black Holes Explain Cosmic Flashes

Posted September 18, 2009:

• Oddball Stars Explained: New Observations Solve Longstanding Mystery Of Tipped Stars

Posted September 17, 2009:

• Swift Makes Best-Ever Ultraviolet Portrait Of Andromeda Galaxy

Posted September 15, 2009:

• Double Nucleus Galaxies: Ravenous Black Holes And Ripples In Space-Time Continuum

Posted September 11, 2009:

• Magnetic Fields Play Larger Role In Star Formation Than Previously Thought

Posted September 9, 2009:

• Hubble Opens New Eyes On The Universe

Posted September 4, 2009:

• Celestial Rosetta Stone: White Dwarf Star, Circling Companion Star, Could Explode In A Few Million Years

Posted September 3, 2009:

• Will Kepler Find Habitable Moons?

Posted August 31, 2009:

• Cygnus X-1: Still A 'Star' After All Those Years

Posted August 30, 2009:

• Star-Birth Myth 'Busted'

Posted August 28, 2009:

• Warped Debris Disks Around Stars Are 'Blowin' In The Wind'
• Huge New Planet Orbits 'Wrong' Way Around Star; Tells Of Game Of Planetary Billiards

Posted August 27, 2009:

• Extrasolar Hot Jupiter: The Planet That 'Shouldn’t Exist'

Posted August 26, 2009:

• Trifid Nebula: A Massive Star Factory

Posted August 20, 2009:

• A Look Into The Hellish Cradles Of Suns And Solar Systems
• Seeing The Cosmos Through 'Warm' Infrared Eyes

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