stellar

Clouds of Sand and Iron Swirl in a Failed Star’s Extreme Atmosphere

January 9, 2013

Want to stay on top of all the space news? Follow @universetoday on Twitter Artist’s concept of brown dwarf  2MASSJ22282889-431026 (NASA/JPL-Caltech) The complex weather patterns within the atmosphere of a rapidly-rotating brown dwarf have been mapped in the highest detail ever by researchers using the infrared abilities of NASA’s Spitzer and Hubble space telescopes… talk about solar [...]

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Life of a Star

December 2, 2009

Stars are kind of like people. They’re born, they live their lives, and then they die. Let’s take a look at the life of a star. All stars start out a giant clouds of neutral hydrogen, which has been left over since the Big Bang. Some event, such as a nearby supernova explosion causes the [...]

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