Dying star creates fantasy-like sculpture of gas and dust
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In this detailed view from NASA&#39;s Hubble Space Telescope, the so-called Cat&#39;s Eye Nebula looks like the penetrating eye of the disembodied sorcerer Sauron from the film adaptation of &quot;The Lord of the Rings.
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In an industrial area of St. Louis, a quixotic artist and entrepreneur is using 182,000 truckloads of dirt to help build a park filled with sculpture and obsolete machinery.
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Martin Puryearâs sculptures, as seen at the Museum of Modern Art, balance between the geometric and the organic with Zen aplomb.
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Christopher Conte turns machined metal, faux bone and vintage machinery into bizarrely beautiful works of biomechanical art.
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Orphaned stars are being born in a vast tail of material stretching behind a faraway galaxy, astronomers said today.
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Ready for takeoff More modern, more art
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By SETH BORENSTEIN, THE ASSOCIATED PRESS  CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla.  Nature and NASA will collaborate tonight 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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A pair of miniscule meteorite grains has helped astronomers settle a long-running debate on the origins of space dust belched out by dying stars.
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Stephen Nash is an artist with an arcane specialty that has made him all too busy these days â drawing precise renditions of primates and other animals on the brink of extinction.
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Mamoru Oshii's hallucinatory meditation on life unfolds in a swirl of film-noir intrigue, philosophical speculation, eye-popping images and serious science-fiction cool.
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The grim, dystopian world in this animated French film is the product of a computer technique that evokes the sharp, linear style of a graphic novel.
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Public-space artist Christopher Janney wants you to hear colors in the most unexpected places.
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An embryonic star, just beginning its life as the center of a planetary system, is apparently deluged with massive rainfall as icy material vaporizes and refreezes. Astronomers are observing one such star in a nebula about 1,000 light years from Earth with the Spitzer Space Telescope.
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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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In this artist&#39;s concept released by NASA, a ring of dusty debris is seen around a star. NASA&#39;s Spitzer Space Telescope found rings of dust around planet-bearing stars, an important confirmation of theories
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A bunch of rowdy comets are colliding and kicking up dust around a dead star, according to new observations from NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope. The dead star lies at the center of the much-photographed Helix nebula, a shimmering cloud of gas with an eerie resemblance to a giant eye.
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Astronomers detect a torrent of water ice pelting an embryonic star system.