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NASA’s STEREO Spots a New Nova
While on duty observing the Sun from its position in solar orbit, NASA's STEREO-B spacecraft captured the sudden appearance of…
Did a Neutron Star Create the “Christmas Burst”?
[/caption] On December 25, 2010, at 1:38 p.m. EST, NASA's Swift Burst Alert Telescope detected a particularly long-lived gamma-ray burst…
An Exoplanet’s Auroral Engine
Located 880 light-years away, a massive gas giant called CoRoT-2b orbits its star at a mere 2 million miles –…
Failed Star Is One Cool Companion
[/caption] Astronomers have located a planet-like star that's barely warmer than a balmy summer day on Earth... it's literally the…
Stars Shrouded in Glittering Zirconium Light up the Sky
[/caption] Its been said that the Universe isn’t stranger than you can imagine, its stranger than you can’t imagine. Nowhere…
Super Star Smashes into the Record Books.
[/caption] The discovery of a super massive neutron star has thrown our understanding of stellar evolution into turmoil. The new…
Distance to Alpha Centauri
Alpha Centauri is the closest known star system to the Solar System. Also known as Rigil Kentaurus, Alpha Centauri is…
Stellar Parallax
[/caption] Parallax is the apparent difference in the position (line of sight to) an object, when the object is viewed…
Life of a Star
Stars are kind of like people. They're born, they live their lives, and then they die. Let's take a look…
Sirius B
[/caption] Sirius B is the name of the fainter, smaller, less massive star in the Sirius binary system (the brighter,…