New Star-Type Resembles Stillborn Star
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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 group of European-led astronomers has made a photograph of what appears to be a planet orbiting another star. If so, it would be the first confirmed picture of a world beyond our solar system.
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Hubble Space Telescope -- An international team of astronomers is announcing today that they have identified the probable surviving companion star to a titanic supernova explosion witnessed in the year 1572 by the great Danish astronomer Tycho Brahe and
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Cool pic too... Astronomers at the European Southern Observatory (ESO) VLT have found jets coming out from a 24 Jupiter-mass brown dwarf, or failed star, similar to the jets that are found coming out of young, but fully fledged stars.â¦
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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 say they may have detected the light from some of the earliest stars to form in the Universe.
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With the help of a modified backyard telescope, astronomers have discovered a giant planet orbiting another star. It is the first extrasolar world found with such modest equipment.
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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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Cambridge, MA - Scientists using NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope have discovered and directly imaged a small brown dwarf star, 50 times the mass of Jupiter, orbiting with a planet around a Sun-like star.
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Collisions between comets may be kicking up copious amounts of dust observed around a dead star.
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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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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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A team of astronomers announced last week the discovery of some of the smallest planets yet detected beyond our solar system. The two newly discovered planets represent a new class of extrasolar planets, and
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A team of astronomers from France and South Africa announced the first catalog of a new type of gamma-ray source, a dozen clouds of ârelicâ radiation from dead stars that reveal information about the energetic past of these celestial objects. These findings were presented on Feb.
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Pack high factor sun cream Scottish astronomers working on a new wide-field survey of the sky have identified two new extra-solar planets in the constellations of Andromeda and Delphinius. The planets have been dubbed Wasp-1a and Wasp-1b.â¦
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Astronomers using telescopes not much larger than the spyglass Galileo wielded 400 years ago have discovered a new Jupiter-sized planet orbiting a bright, distant star.
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Astronomers have discovered a new class of planets that take less than a day to whiz round their parent stars.