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Jul 31, 2014 09:26 AM EDT

Young Double Star System Attracts Wild Planet-Forming Discs

Astronomers have made an unusual discovery. Using the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA), they've found wildly misaligned planet-forming gas discs around two young stars in the binary system HK Tauri.
Jul 12, 2014 10:24 AM EDT

Astronomers Uncover Evidence of the Universe's Earliest Stars from Hours-Long Explosion

Astronomers have made an extraordinary discovery and have learned a bit more about our universe's earliest stars because of it.
Jul 11, 2014 07:21 AM EDT

Sun-like Stars Reveal How Old They Are with Their Speedy Spins

How old are sun-like stars? That's a good question, and it's one that astronomers have been struggling with for quite some time. Now, scientists have a new technique for measuring the age of a star by using its spin.
Jul 09, 2014 08:48 AM EDT

Astronomers Create New 3D Model of Doomed Star's Explosive Outburst

Astronomers have used new observations to create the first high-resolution 3D model of the stunning and explosive event involving the massive binary star system, Eta Carinae.
Jul 04, 2014 07:29 AM EDT

New Ultrasound Technique Tells Astronomers the Age of Baby Stars in Stellar Womb

Finding out exactly how old a star might be has long been a challenge for astronomers. Now, though, researchers may have found a way to do so.
Jul 02, 2014 10:55 AM EDT

ESO Telescope Captures Stunning New Image of Star Formation Region, Gum 15

Astronomers have captured a stunning new image of the star formation region Gum 15 with the help of the MPG/ESO 2.2-meter telescope at the La Silla Observatory in Chile.
Jun 23, 2014 12:07 PM EDT

New Spectral 'Ruler' Can be Used by Astronomers to Measure the Stars for Gaia Project

Astronomers have created a new stellar scale as a type of "ruler" that they can use to investigate the atmospheric structure and chemical make-up of stars, making it far easier to classify and compare data on star discoveries.
Jun 16, 2014 12:27 PM EDT

Herschel Spots Ring of Strange, Dusty Material and Baby Stars in Stellar Nursery

The Herschel Space Observatory has spotted a ring of dusty material while capturing one of the sharpest scans to date of a distant cloud of gas and dust, called NGC 7538.
Jun 04, 2014 01:12 PM EDT

Astronomers Discover New Type of Bizarre, Hybrid Star Created from Red Supergiants

Astronomers have discovered a new, bizarre type of hybrid star. First proposed in 1975, this star is a hybrid of red supergiant and neutron stars that superficially resemble normal red supergiants, but differ with their distinct, chemical signatures.
Jun 02, 2014 01:36 PM EDT

Star May Have a Cosmic Snack: Two Planets to be Swallowed in Only a Few Million Years

A star is about to have a cosmic snack. Scientists have found the two worlds orbiting a distant star will be swallowed by the star in just a short period of time--at least by astronomical standards.
May 13, 2014 01:00 PM EDT

Astronomers Spot Odd Gas Giant Planet Traveling Far from its Star

Astronomers have uncovered a new gas giant through direct imaging. Located around GU Psc, a star three times less massive than the sun, the new exoplanet reveals a little bit more about the planetary bodies in our universe.
May 12, 2014 07:16 AM EDT

Astronomers Discover First Solar Sibling: Sister Sun is 110 Light-Years from Earth

Astronomers have now found our sun's first sibling--a star that was probably born from the same cloud of gas and dust as the sun.
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