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Brown Dwarfs Don't Hang Out With Stars
Jan 05, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Brown dwarfs, objects that are less massive than stars but larger than planets, just got more elusive, based on a study of 233 nearby multiple-star systems by NASA's Hubble Space Telescope. ...
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Most Milky Way Stars Are Single
Jan 30, 2006 |
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Common wisdom among astronomers holds that most star systems in the Milky Way are multiple, consisting of two or more stars in orbit around each other. Common wisdom is wrong. A new study by Charles Lada of the Harvard-Smithsonian ...
Refining the search for new planets
Feb 03, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- SF State's planet hunting team is trying new avenues of investigation in the quest to discover planets beyond our solar system. At the American Astronomical Society (AAS) meeting in January, ...
New study resolves mystery of how massive stars form
Jan 15, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Theorists have long wondered how massive stars--up to 120 times the mass of the Sun--can form without blowing away the clouds of gas and dust that feed their growth. But the problem turns ...
How Do Multiple-Star Systems Form?
Dec 15, 2006 |
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Astronomers have used the National Science Foundation's Very Large Array (VLA) radio telescope to image a young, multiple-star system with unprecedented detail, yielding important clues about how such systems ...
Hubble celebrates 19th anniversary with fountain of youth
Apr 21, 2009 |
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Over the past 19 years Hubble has taken dozens of exotic pictures of galaxies going "bump in the night" as they collide with each other and have a variety of close encounters of the galactic kind. Just when ...
Trigger-Happy Star Formation
Aug 12, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- A new study from two of NASA's Great Observatories provides fresh insight into how some stars are born, along with a beautiful new image of a stellar nursery in our Galaxy. The research shows ...
Spitzer Finds Planets Thrive Around Stellar Twins
Mar 29, 2007 |
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The double sunset that Luke Skywalker gazed upon in the film "Star Wars" might not be a fantasy.
Planetary systems can form around binary stars
Jan 10, 2006 |
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New theoretical work shows that gas-giant planet formation can occur around binary stars in much the same way that it occurs around single stars like the Sun. The work is presented today by Dr. Alan Boss of ...
Twin Keck telescopes probe dual dust disks
Sep 24, 2009 |
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Astronomers using the twin 10-meter telescopes at the W. M. Keck Observatory in Hawaii have explored one of the most compact dust disks ever resolved around another star. If placed in our own solar system, ...
NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory arrives at Kennedy Space Center
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Jul 10, 2009 |
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NASA's upcoming mission to study the sun in unprecedented detail and its effects on Earth, the Solar Dynamics Observatory (SDO), arrived at NASA's Kennedy Space Center, Fla. on July 9.
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