Photo Release: Dying Star Creates Fantasy-Like Sculpture of Gas ...
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GARCHING, Germany, Sept. 9 (AScribe Newswire) -- A new study of a large number of planetary nebulae has revealed that rings, such as those seen here around the Cat&#39;s Eye Nebula, are much more common that thought
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An optical illusion has caused astronomers to overestimate the size of a class of giant stars by a factor of two, according to new observations.
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A young star speeding away from the Milky Way is in fact an alien visitor, astronomers have confirmed. The wayward object is one of several rogues that are giving astronomers a glimpse into the volatile nature of our galaxy and others.
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One of the hottest, most energetic mergers of two colossal galaxy clusters has been imaged in exquisite detail by an X-ray observatory in space, astronomers announced on Thursday.
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The Swift space-borne observatory has seen two stars in the same galaxy explode within months of each other.
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On Thursday night, Nature and NASA will collaborate in a painting that will use the skies over the Eastern seaboard as a cosmic canvas. The materials are a nearly full moon, the stars and a streaking space shuttle.
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Three powerful bursts of energy from different regions of space could presage spectacular explosions of huge stars, astronomers just announced.
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A cosmic explosion that seems to have come out of nowhere&#x2014;thousands of light-years from the nearest collection of stars&#x2014;has left astronomers baffled.
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Telescope images show a "death star" galaxy shooting deadly radiation particles into another galaxy about one-tenth its size.
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Skeleton star gets gobbled Astronomers using NASA's Swift and Rossi X-Ray Timing Explorer (RXTE) satellites have discovered a stellar skeleton, a remnant of a dying star that is being consumed by its pulsar companion. So little of the star's original material is left that it now barely masses more than Jupiter.â¦
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Collisions between comets may be kicking up copious amounts of dust observed around a dead star.
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The first pictures from the unseen side of Mercury reveal the wrinkles of a shrinking, aging planet with scars from volcanic eruptions and a birthmark shaped like a spider
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A trio of supergiants -- red, cool, bright stars at the end of their lives -- may be the biggest stars ever identified, astronomers reported on Monday.
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Industrial designer takes inspiration from comics, movies while working on the interior of Virgin Galactic spacecraft and the suits tourists will wear on suborbital flights.
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US scientists working with images from the Hubble Space Telescope have identified what may turn out to be some of the earliest star-forming galaxies.
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A sculptor, an architect, a photographer and a writer were involved. Collisions may have been inevitable.
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SAN DIEGO -- A new image of a familiar stellar nursery peeks inside the incubators to provide a colorful glimpse of unborn stars.