News tagged with solar masses


Birth of a star predicted

Space & Earth / Astronomy

created Jun 09, 2009 | popularity 4 / 5 (3) | comments 0

The astrophysicist João Alves, director of the Calar Alto Observatory in Almeria, and his colleague Andreas Bürkert, from the German observatory in the University of Munich, believe that "the inevitable future of the starless ...


Astrophysicists 'weigh' galaxy's most massive star

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created Sep 19, 2008 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (15) | comments 1

Theoretical models of stellar formation propose the existence of very massive stars that can attain up to 150 times the mass of our Sun.





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Swift, XMM-Newton satellites tune into a middleweight black hole

Swift, XMM-Newton satellites tune into a middleweight black hole

Space & Earth / Astronomy

created Nov 10, 2009 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (2) | comments 1

(PhysOrg.com) -- While astronomers have studied lightweight and heavyweight black holes for decades, the evidence for black holes with intermediate masses has been much harder to come by. Now, astronomers ...


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The CoRoT space mission: Early results

Space & Earth / Astronomy

created Oct 22, 2009 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (8) | comments 0

Astronomy & Astrophysics is publishing a special issue this week dedicated to the early results of the CoRoT space mission. The CoRoT (Convection, Rotation & planetary Transits) satellite is a 30 centimeter space ...


The system Gliese 667 (Artist’s impression)

32 New Exoplanets Found (w/ Video)

Space & Earth / Astronomy

created Oct 19, 2009 | popularity 4.9 / 5 (27) | comments 6

(PhysOrg.com) -- Today, at an international ESO/CAUP exoplanet conference in Porto, the team who built the High Accuracy Radial Velocity Planet Searcher, better known as HARPS, the spectrograph for ESO's 3.6-metre ...


Cosmic entropy could be 100 times greater than previously thought

Physics / General Physics

created Oct 06, 2009 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (20) | comments 11

(PhysOrg.com) -- A new analysis of supermassive black holes has discovered the entropy of the universe is much greater than previously thought, which means it may also be very slightly closer to ultimate heat death.


First Solid Evidence for a Rocky Exoplanet

First Solid Evidence for a Rocky Exoplanet (w/ Video)

Space & Earth / Astronomy

created Sep 16, 2009 | popularity 4.6 / 5 (14) | comments 2

(PhysOrg.com) -- The longest set of HARPS measurements ever made has firmly established the nature of the smallest and fastest-orbiting exoplanet known, CoRoT-7b, revealing its mass as five times that of Earth's. ...


Making Massive Stars

Making Massive Stars

Space & Earth / Astronomy

created Sep 15, 2009 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (3) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- Our understanding of star formation leans heavily on observations of stars like the sun, namely, those that are modest in mass and that are born and evolve at a relatively leisurely pace. ...


XMM-Newton uncovers a celestial Rosetta stone

XMM-Newton uncovers a celestial Rosetta stone

Space & Earth / Astronomy

created Sep 03, 2009 | popularity 4.9 / 5 (16) | comments 7

(PhysOrg.com) -- ESA's XMM-Newton orbiting X-ray telescope has uncovered a celestial Rosetta stone: the first close-up of a white dwarf star, circling a companion star, that could explode into a particular ...


Making Jupiters

Making Jupiters

Space & Earth / Astronomy

created Aug 21, 2009 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (3) | comments 3

IC348 is a glowing nebula of young stars, hot gas, and cold dust seen in the direction of the constellation of Perseus. It is the nearest rich cluster of young stars to earth, being only about one thousand ...


NASA researchers make first discovery of life's building block in comet

First discovery of life's building block in comet made

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

created Aug 17, 2009 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (17) | comments 13

(PhysOrg.com) -- NASA scientists have discovered glycine, a fundamental building block of life, in samples of comet Wild 2 returned by NASA's Stardust spacecraft.


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Mini Gradiometer Could Map Other Planets' Gravity Fields

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

created Aug 10, 2009 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (6) | comments 1

(PhysOrg.com) -- Although it may seem like gravity is the same everywhere on the Earth, it actually varies a small amount from place to place. Factors such as mountains, ocean trenches, and interior density ...



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