News tagged with red giants
Can Earth-sized planets survive their star's expansion?
Two Earth-sized planets have been discovered circling a dying star that has passed the red giant stage. Because of their close orbits, the planets must have been engulfed by their star while it swelled up ...
Dec 21, 2011 |
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NASA to host launch tweetup for Jupiter-bound mission
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Jun 27, 2011 |
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NASA's Kepler reaches into the stars
We are entering a golden era for "stellar physics" – a term coined to describe research about the formation, evolution, interior and the atmospheres of stars. Thanks to a partnership forged among stellar ...
Apr 13, 2011 |
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Astronomers discover Kepler's trinity
NASA's revolutionary Kepler satellite has discovered a unique triply eclipsing triple star, reports an international team of astronomers.
Apr 08, 2011 |
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Giant stars reveal inner secrets for the first time
(PhysOrg.com) -- University of Sydney astrophysicists are behind a major breakthrough in the study of stars known as red giants, finding a way to peer deep into their cores to discover which ones are in ear ...
Mar 31, 2011 |
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Kepler spacecraft gives astronomers a look inside red giant stars
NASA's Kepler Mission is giving astronomers such a clear view of changes in star brightness that they can now see clues about what's happening inside red giant stars.
Mar 30, 2011 |
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Astronomers detect echoes from the depth of a red giant star
(PhysOrg.com) -- Today an international team of astronomers reports the discovery of waves inside a star that travel so deep that they reach the core. The discovery was published in the renowned journal Science, and wa ...
Mar 18, 2011 |
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Kepler spacecraft takes pulse of distant stars
(PhysOrg.com) -- An international cadre of scientists that used data from NASA's Kepler spacecraft announced Tuesday the detection of stellar oscillations, or "starquakes," that yield new insights about the size, age and ...
Oct 26, 2010 |
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Britain's biggest animal 'killed for antlers'
A giant red stag thought to be Britain's biggest wild animal was killed for its antlers, according to reports on Tuesday.
Oct 26, 2010 |
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CH Cyg: A Close-up View of Codependent Stellar Living
(PhysOrg.com) -- This image shows the symbiotic system known as CH Cyg, located only about 800 light years from Earth. The large image shows an optical view of CH Cyg, using the Digitized Sky Survey, and the ...
Jun 09, 2010 |
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Astronaut's eye view: Mars Express orbiting the Red Planet (w/ Video)
(PhysOrg.com) -- This video shows what future astronauts would see from their cockpit: Mars turning below as they sweep around the Red Planet. Last month, ESA's Mars Express snapped images every minute to create a unique ...
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Jun 02, 2010 |
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Diagnosis murder: Study shows supermassive black holes may strip galaxies of life
(PhysOrg.com) -- Black holes have long been beloved of science fiction writers for their destructive capabilities and peculiar ability to warp space time. Now a study led by researchers from The University ...
Apr 16, 2010 |
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First detailed look at young dusty discs around ageing stars
(PhysOrg.com) -- Astronomers from the University of Manchester's Jodrell Bank Centre for Astrophysics and the Observatoire de la Cote d’Azur in France have used the Very Large Telescope (VLT) in Chile to discover ...
Apr 14, 2010 |
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Determining chemical composition of a type of red giant star with more carbon than oxygen
What are the peculiar type-R stars made? Where does the carbon present in their shell come from? These are the questions to be solved by a research work conducted by scientists of the department of Theoretical ...
Jan 14, 2010 |
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New tidal streams found in Andromeda reveal history of galactic mergers
(PhysOrg.com) -- An international team of astronomers has identified two new tidal streams in the Andromeda galaxy, the remnants of dwarf galaxies consumed by our large galactic neighbor. Analysis of the stars ...
Jan 07, 2010 |
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