Star News

Posted October 6, 2011:

• Astronomers Find Elusive Planets in Decade-Old Hubble Data

Posted October 4, 2011:

• Kepler Spacecraft Discovers New Multi-Planet Solar System

Posted October 3, 2011:

• First Images from ALMA Telescope: Hidden Star-Formation in Antennae Galaxies Revealed

Posted September 30, 2011:

• Astronomers Reveal Supernova Factory

Posted September 29, 2011:

• Galaxy Caught Blowing Bubbles
• Stardust Discovered in Far-Off Planetary Systems

Posted September 28, 2011:

• Feast Your Eyes on the Fried Egg Nebula

Posted September 27, 2011:

• Giant Star Expels Multiple Dust Shells, Astronomers Find

Posted September 21, 2011:

• An Angry Bird in the Sky: Lambda Centauri Nebula

Posted September 19, 2011:

• Black Hole, Star Collisions May Illuminate Universe's Dark Side

Posted September 15, 2011:

• NASA's Kepler Discovery Confirms First Planet Orbiting Two Stars
• Turbulent Lives of Stars
• How Single Stars Lost Their Companions

Posted September 13, 2011:

• Vigorous Star Birth Without Galactic Collisions: Herschel Paints New Story of Galaxy Evolution
• Star Blasts Planet With X-Rays

Posted September 12, 2011:

• Astronomers Find 50 New Exoplanets: Richest Haul of Planets So Far Includes 16 New Super-Earths

Posted September 9, 2011:

• Fermi's Latest Gamma-Ray Census Highlights Cosmic Mysteries

Posted September 8, 2011:

• 'Invisible' World Discovered: Planet Alternately Runs Late and Early in Its Orbit, Tugged by Second Hidden World

Posted September 7, 2011:

• Hubble to Target 'Hot Jupiters'
• Young Stars Take a Turn in the Spotlight

Posted September 6, 2011:

• Milky Way Galaxy Might Hold Thousands of Ticking 'Time Bombs'

Posted September 1, 2011:

• Hubble Movies Reveal Solar-System-Sized Traffic Jams: Giant Jets Spewing from Newborn Stars Revealed in Telescope's Images

Posted August 31, 2011:

• The Star That Should Not Exist
• Hubble Movies Provide Unprecedented View of Supersonic Jets from Young Stars

Posted August 30, 2011:

• New Light Shed on Pulsars

Posted August 25, 2011:

• Milky Way's Halo Raining Ionized Gas to Fuel Continued Star Formation
• Pulsar Transformed Into Small Planet Made of Diamond Discovered in Milky Way
• First Glimpse Into Birth of the Milky Way

Posted August 24, 2011:

• How a Distant Black Hole Devoured a Star
• NASA's WISE Mission Discovers Coolest Class of Stars

Posted August 22, 2011:

• Galaxies Are Running out of Gas: Why the Lights Are Going out in the Universe
• Are Stellar Explosions Created Equal? Scientists Recheck a Standard Model for Supernovae on Which Cosmic Distance Measurement Is Based

Posted August 12, 2011:

• Hubble Offers Dazzling Necklace Nebula
• A Cosmic Inkblot Test: Spitzer Captures View of Dumbbell Nebula

Posted August 11, 2011:

• Supernovae Parents Found: Clear Signatures of Gas Outflows from Stellar Ancestors
• Darkest Known Exoplanet: Alien World Is Blacker Than Coal

Posted August 3, 2011:

• Ninety-Six Star Clusters Discovered Hidden Behind Dust of Milky Way

Posted August 2, 2011:

• Menu Labels in University Canteens Do Not Influence Meal Choices
• Sea Squirt Pacemaker Gives New Insight Into Evolution of the Human Heart

Posted July 20, 2011:

• Spitzer Sees 'Spider Web' of Stars

Posted July 27, 2011:

• VST Looks at the Leo Triplet -- And Beyond

Posted July 21, 2011:

• Exoplanet Aurora: An out-of-This-World Sight
• Four Unusual Views of the Andromeda Galaxy

Posted July 20, 2011:

• Cosmic Superbubble Carved by Stellar Winds from Bright Young Stars and Supernova Shockwaves

Posted July 14, 2011:

• New Planets Feature Young Star and Twin Neptunes

Posted July 13, 2011:

• Evolved Stars Locked in Fatalistic Dance

Posted July 7, 2011:

• Stardust in Our Backyard Provides New Clues to Galaxy Evolution

Posted July 6, 2011:

• Eye of Gaia: Billion-Pixel Camera to Map Milky Way

Posted June 30, 2011:

• NASA's Spitzer Finds Distant Galaxies Grazed on Gas
• Making a Spectacle of Star Formation in Orion

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