Brightest star in the Galaxy
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Major League Soccer commissioner Don Garber noted yesterday the first-day sale of David Beckham jerseys with the Los Angeles Galaxy had surpassed the first-day numbers of Beckham shirt sales at Real Madrid four years ago. More than 250,000 Galaxy shirts with Beckham's name and No. 23 have been ordered at $80 each, a good start on gaining ...
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Danish astronomer Tycho Brahe spotted a new star in the sky on Nov. 11, 1572, and astronomers have been trying ever since to figure out exactly what happened.
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European scientists have found a planet circling a distant star that could be home to life. The planet, the first detected so far that is enough like Earth for life to develop, orbits a star called mu Arae in the southern constellation Altar.
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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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Astronomers have spotted a faint cluster of stars in or near our galaxy, but they're not sure what to call the grouping.
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SAN DIEGO&nbsp;-- A new study reveals that the center of our Milky Way Galaxy is loaded with black holes, as astronomers have expected in recent years.
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For the first time astronomers have witnessed a supermassive black hole blasting its galactic neighbor with a deadly beam of energy.
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U.S. scientists using NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope have discovered a small brown dwarf star, 50 times the mass of Jupiter.  The star is orbiting with a planet around a sun-like star in an arrangement astronomers say has never been observed before.
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Most unusual New images from the Japanese infrared space telescope AKARI have revealed giant star-forming regions on the edge of the spiral galaxy M101. The findings suggest M101 is something of a special case, since star formation more usually happens in the denser central part of spiral galaxies.â¦
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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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The center of our galaxy is approximately    27,000 light-years away in the direction of the constellation Sagittarius. At    its core, as scientist have known for some time, lies a supermassive black hole    surrounded by millions of stars, all huddled far more closely than in the galactic    outskirts where our Sun resides.
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A systematic search for the first bright galaxies to form in the early universe has revealed a dramatic jump in the number of such galaxies around 13 billion years ago.
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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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&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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Astronomers detect a torrent of water ice pelting an embryonic star system.
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Astronomers say they may have detected the light from some of the earliest stars to form in the Universe.
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Astronomers have found the biggest stellar black hole so far, a monster with a mass 15.65 times that of our Sun, lurking in a nearby spiral-shaped galaxy.