Imagine That! Star Patterns to Ponder
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In our current evening sky    we have one of the earliest soap-operalike stories, with two independent plots    becoming intertwined into one. Perhaps we could call it the celestial version    of &quot;All My Children.&quot;
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Those who are involved in popularizing astronomy are asked certain questions time and again.&nbsp; One of these is 'How many stars are there?' Only when one is blessed with a rare glimpse of a star-spangled sky with its myriad luminaries, can we understand why this question occurs.&nbsp; Special computer analysis can readily answer the question.&nbsp;
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When you look at Sirius, the Dog Star, you&#39;re actually seeing light that left the star 8.6 years ago. In the meantime, the star could have burst into a supernova or run off chasing the gargantuan Ford Galaxy.
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New observations of dust around young stars suggests collisions of large asteroid-like objects and fledgling planets are frequent.
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The surface of one of the brightest stars in the night sky is imaged by scientists.
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Wander through TMZ.com at any given moment and it's easy to grasp what the Web site is gleefully pushing. There are stars smooching. Stars sunning. Stars looking hot, or not. And, always, there are stars misbehaving.
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The earliest stars may hold clues to the nature of the Universe's mysterious dark matter, simulations suggest.
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New observations of dust around young stars suggests collisions of large asteroid-like objects and fledgling planets are frequent. But that doesn't likely stop the formation of rocky planets like Earth, a process that may well be common, the results suggest.
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New infrared observations of the disks of dust and rock around young stars reveal that many planets apparently form in an environment more violent and chaotic over a longer period of
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Shining brightly in the constellation  Leo is a fast-spinning&nbsp;star that shoots through the cosmos like an  extra-wide&nbsp;bullet, perplexing astronomers as it moves through space in the  same direction as its polar axis.
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When a binary star system starts to transfer mass, one of the twins may well win out, leaving its companion to occupy a strange region half way between a star and a planet. A new star-type of this sort has been found, which resembles the infrared ash of a stillborn star.
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The Chandra X-ray Observatory has re-imaged a familiar scene of a relatively nearby exploded star, revealing new details of the chaotic aftermath.
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New pics of an old explosion NASA has released a striking new image of explosive neighbouring star Eta Carinae. The star is huge: somewhere between 100 and 150 times the size of our own sun. It is also consuming its fuel at a truly astonishing rate.â¦
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While you may never have pondered the similarity between a common bar magnet and a    star,&nbsp;astronomers do, and they believe they have figure out why the two disparate bodies are    sometimes strikingly similar.
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Galactic Bulge and Disc Stars Shown To Have Different Oxygen Abundances Looking in detail at the composition of stars with ESO's VLT, astronomers are providing a fresh look at the history of our home galaxy, the Milky Way.
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Do you love gazing at a starry night sky?  Nothing you've ever seen on Earth could prepare you for the fantastic skies of some &quot;orphan stars&quot; just discovered by astronomers using NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory.
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