The Colorful Demise of a Sun-like Star
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A brand new image taken with Hubbleâs Wide Field Planetary Camera 2 shows the planetary nebula NGC 2440 - the chaotic structure of the demise of a star.This image, just taken by the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope, shows the colourful âlast hurrahâ of a star like our Sun.
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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. The case appeared to be solved last week.
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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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Earlier this month, the US space program lost one of its most colorful pioneers - Leroy Gordon &quot;Gordo&quot; Cooper Jr., one of the Mercury 7 astronauts, whose exploits and foibles
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Astronomers have observed for the first time a jet of matter spiraling outward from an infant star, as if a lengthy strand of curly pasta.
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New infrared observations of the disks of dust and rock around young stars reveal that many planets apparently form in an environment more violent and chaotic over a longer period of
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Pretty pictures Hubble has snapped yet another stunning picture of a not-too-distant part of the galaxy. This time, the relatively nearby supernova remnant known as Cassiopeia A (Cas A) poses nicely for the camera, revealing intricate details of the remains of the star.â¦
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VLT Finds Smallest Galactic Object with JetsJets of matter have been discovered around a very low mass 'failed star', mimicking a process seen in young stars.
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Those who are involved in popularizing astronomy are asked certain questions time and again.&nbsp; One of these is 'How many stars are there?' Only when one is blessed with a rare glimpse of a star-spangled sky with its myriad luminaries, can we understand why this question occurs.&nbsp; Special computer analysis can readily answer the question.&nbsp;
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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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Until recently, astronomers had never seen dust and planets around the same stars. This month, astronomers said they had closed the loop.
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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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New observations of dust around young stars suggests collisions of large asteroid-like objects and fledgling planets are frequent.
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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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Using the largest telescopes available, astronomers have dissected the dusty, gassy layers of the red giant S Orionis-a star that pulsates in size from a diameter roughly equal to the orbit of Mars to that of Jupiter every 410 days.
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While a terrestrial view of a galaxy might disguise the turbulent, changing mergers that fuel their formation, a famous cluster called Stephan's Quintet shows that seemingly immutable stars are always in flux.    Astrobiology Magazine -- A stunning image released by the Gemini Observatory captures the graceful interactions of a galactic ballet, on a stage some 300 million light years away, that might better be described as a contortionist's dance...
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SPACE.com / Nearly 2,000 years ago, Chinese astronomers spotted a bright light materializing in the night sky. Turns out the skywatchers had witnessed the spectacular explosion of a dying star.