Stellar Evolution
NGC 1846 – Hubble Reveals Peculiar Life And Death Of A Stellar Population
[/caption] About 160,000 light years away in the direction of southern constellation Doradus, sits a globular cluster. It's not a…
SOFIA Reveals Star-Forming Region W40
[/caption] Around 1957 light years away, a dense molecular cloud resides beside an OB star cluster locked in a massive…
Are Pulsars Giant Permanent Magnets?
[/caption] Some of the most bizarre phenomena in the universe are neutron stars. Very few things in our universe can…
The Way Cool Clouds Of The Carina Nebula
[/caption] It's beautiful.... But it's cold. By utilizing the submillimetre-wavelength of light, the 12 meter APEX telescope has imaged the…
Do Galaxies Recycle Their Material?
[/caption] It's a great question that's now been validated by the Hubble Space Telescope. Recent observations have shown how galaxies…
Antique Stars Could Help Solve Mysteries Of Early Milky Way
[/caption] Utilizing ESO's giant telescopes located in Chile, researchers at the Niels Bohr Institute have been examining "antique" stars. Located…
New NASA Mission Hunts Down Zombie Stars
[/caption] Neutron stars have been classed as "undead"... real zombie stars. Even though technically defunct, the neutron star continues to…
Early Galaxy Chemistry: VLT Observes Gamma-Ray Burst
[/caption] "Shot through the heart and you're to blame..." There's nothing more powerful than a gamma-ray burst. These abrupt, mega-bright…
Three New Planets and a Mystery Object Found Orbiting Dying Stars
[/caption] Some interesting new additions to the exoplanet family were announced last week by astronomers from Penn State University. While…
Guest Post by Author Peter Shaver: Cosmic Time Scales
[/caption] Editor's note: Peter Shaver is the author of the new book "Cosmic Heritage – Evolution from the Big Bang…