Three largest stars identified
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The girths of three red giants are measured - stars which are more than 1.5 billion km across.
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A new class of planets has been  found orbiting stars besides our sun, in a possible giant leap  forward in the search for Earth-like planets that might harbor  life, scientists said on Tuesday.
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Two old stars appear to be generating planets long after the normal period, astronomers say.
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A new extra-solar planet has been identified orbiting a star 500 light years from our solar system. The discovery was made by a team using a four-inch diameter telescope to make their observations - a size
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MAUNA KEA, Hawaii -- The sharpest image ever taken of a dust disk around another star has revealed structures in the disk which are signs of unseen planets.     Dr...
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The collisions that spawn planets are bigger and take place over longer periods of time than previously thought, say astronomers who studied nearly 300 stars with NASA&#39;s Spitzer Space Telescope.
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Astronomers have found what they say is the best evidence yet for water, or at least steam, in the atmosphere of a planet around another star.
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The largest asteroid ever known to pass near Earth is making a close celestial brush with the planet this week in an event that professional and backyard astronomers are watching closely.
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The first precise measurement of a failed star known as a brown dwarf finds the object is much more massive than theorists expected. The result challenges what astronomers&nbsp;assumed about these strange things, which straddle the mass range between huge planets and normal stars.
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This one is named Geminids because it seems to originate from the constellation Gemini. It will deliver about a dozen stars an hour.
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A new class of planets has been found orbiting stars besides our sun, in a possible giant leap forward in the search for Earth-like planets that might harbor life, scientists said on Tuesday.
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Eta Carinae in a previous life? NASA astronomers think they have identified one of the most extreme binary systems ever, containing two extremely massive stars in very tight orbit.â¦
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Two old stars appear to be gearing up for a second generation of planet formation, a phenomenon astronomers say they have never seen before.
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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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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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Three planets will align over the weekend, giving Iowans a glimpse at something they haven't seen for at least 100 years, astronomy experts said.
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With astrology and numerology finding more and more believers, a leading Mumbai daily just recently carried predictions by the city's three prolific astro-numerologists on Bollywood celebrities.