Rogue Stars: The Miscreants of Our Galaxy
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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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A NASA observatory discovers dozens of 'baby' galaxies in our midst. Scientists say the newborns could tell us a lot about our own aging Milky Way. By Amit Asaravala.
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Astronomers using NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory have discovered one of the fastest stars ever seen--a &quot;cosmic cannonball&quot; that is challenging theories to explain its blistering speed.
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Astronomers have estimated the age of our galaxy at about 13,600 million years old.
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Astronomers have found a new class of objects in space: a neutron star orbiting inside a cocoon of cold gas and/or dust that hides a bloated supergiant star.
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One of the pleasures of    stargazing is noticing and enjoying the various colors that stars display in    dark skies. These hues offer direct visual evidence of how stellar temperatures    vary.
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A giant hydrogen gas cloud will create new stars when it hits our galaxy in 20-40 million years' time.
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Astronomers spot a space oddity in Earth's neighbourhood: a dead star with unusual characteristics.
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&quot;For the first time, we have clearly established a 'genetic difference' between stars in the disc and the bulge of our Galaxy,&quot; said Manuela Zoccali, lead author of the paper presenting the results in the journal Astronomy and Astrophysics [1].
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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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Life near the center of our galaxy never had a chance. Every 20 million years on average, gas pours into the galactic center and slams together, creating millions of new stars. The more massive stars soon go supernova, exploding violently and blasting the surrounding space.
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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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A NASA satellite catches the action as a massive star smashes to smithereens. It open up a whole new universe to astronomers. By Kristen Philipkoski.
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NASA&#39;s Galaxy Evolution Explorer has discovered three dozen galaxies emitting ultraviolet light at levels that indicate stars still are forming and supernovas still are exploding.
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Observing the image of a faint object that lies close to a star is a demanding task as the object is generally hidden in the glare of the star. Characterising this object, by taking spectra, is an even harder challenge.
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Gabe: You might notice that in Today"s comic Tycho is reading Bloodlines. We both just wrapped the book up and it"s incredible. I"ve always been a huge Boba Fett fan and now thanks to Karen Traviss I know why.
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Astronomers detect a torrent of water ice pelting an embryonic star system.