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Dusty Shock Waves Generate Planet Ingredients

Dusty Shock Waves Generate Planet Ingredients

Space & Earth / Astronomy

created Nov 11, 2008 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (16) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- Shock waves around dusty, young stars might be creating the raw materials for planets, according to new observations from NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope.


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Astronomers get best view yet of infant stars at feeding time

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created Oct 10, 2008 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

Astronomers have used ESO's Very Large Telescope Interferometer to conduct the first high resolution survey that combines spectroscopy and interferometry on intermediate-mass infant stars. They obtained a ...


Young stellar objects: The source of gas emission around Herbig Ae/Be stars

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created Oct 10, 2008 | popularity 4 / 5 (3) | comments 0

This week, Astronomy & Astrophysics is publishing new observations with AMBER/VLTI of the gas component in the vicinity of young stars. An international team of astronomers led by E. Tatulli (Grenoble, France) and S. Kra ...


First picture of likely planet around sun-like star unveiled

First picture of likely planet around sun-like star unveiled

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created Sep 16, 2008 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (32) | comments 1

(PhysOrg.com) -- University of Toronto astronomers have unveiled what is likely the first picture of a planet around a star similar to the sun.


The mystery of young stars near black holes solved

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created Aug 22, 2008 | popularity 4.4 / 5 (18) | comments 1

The mystery of how young stars can form within the deep gravity of black holes has been solved by a team of astrophysicists at the Universities of St Andrews and Edinburgh.



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