Star Formation

Can Super-Fast Stars Unveil Dark Matter’s Secrets?

Zoom! A star was recently spotted speeding at 1.4 million miles an hour (2.2 million km/hr), which happened to be the closest…

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Found! Sun’s ‘Sibling’ Likely Formed From Same Gas Cloud, Astronomers Say

Peer about 110 light-years away from our solar system, and you might catch a glimpse of how our own neighborhood…

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Starquake! How Super-Suns Swing, And What It Could Look Like

Much like how an earthquake can teach us about the interior of the Earth, a starquake shows off certain properties…

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Dusty Galaxies Shine Across The Universe In New Herschel Survey

While dust is easy to ignore in small quantities (says the writer looking at her desk), across vast reaches of…

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Hubble Captures Starbirth In A Monkey’s Head As Telescope Approaches 24 Years In Space

Billowing gas clouds and young stars feature in this February Hubble Space Telescope image, released as the telescope approaches its…

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Astronomers Identify the Largest Yellow “Hypergiant” Star Known

A stellar monster lurks in heart of the Centaur. A recent analysis of a star in the south hemisphere constellation of…

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Did Old Galaxies Grow Up Quicker Than New Ones?

Did some of the oldest galaxies grow up quickly? That's an intriguing possibility raised by a research team that found…

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Pushy Black Holes Stop Elliptical Galaxies From Forming Stars

Contradicting past theories, cold gas has been found in abundance in some elliptical galaxies -- showing that there must be…

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Black Holes Warmed Up Space Slower Than Previously Thought: Study

Black holes are big influencers for the early universe; these singularities that were close to ancient stars heated up gas…

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Supernova’s Galaxy Full Of Starbursts and ‘Superwind’

Radio light, radio bright: when you look at M82 in this frequency range, a whole lot of activity pops out.…

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