All posts tagged "star"
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Astronomy and Space
Image: Young star offers a glimpse of the sun’s past
June 12, 2016Credit: ESA/Hubble, NASA, K. Stapelfeldt (GSFC), B. Stecklum & A. Choudhary (Thüringer Landessternwarte Tautenburg, Germany) It...
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Astronomy and Space
Young star appears to be ripping away layers of close-orbiting ‘hot Jupiter’
June 8, 2016An artist’s impression of likely new giant planet PTFO8-8695 b, which is believed to orbit a...
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Astronomy and Space
SOFIA pinpoints water vapor in young star
June 8, 2016Infrared spectrum of the protostar AFGL 2591 made by the EXES instrument on SOFIA, superimposed on...
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Astronomy and Space
Astronomers discover a giant planet spinning up its star
June 6, 2016Unbinned instrumental r band light curve of HATS-18 folded with the period P = 0.8378434 days...
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Astronomy and Space
Hubble sees a swarm of ancient star clusters around a galaxy
May 22, 2016Credit: ESA/Hubble & NASA; Acknowledgement: Judy Schmidt This NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope image shows star clusters...
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Astronomy and Space
First evidence of icy comets orbiting a sun-like star
May 17, 2016Illustration of the dust ring surrounding HD 181327. Credit: Amanda Smith, University of Cambridge An international...
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Astronomy and Space
Mysterious happenings around the star KIC 846852
May 15, 2016The Kepler satellite was designed to search for Earth-sized planets in the habitable zone of stars...
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Astronomy and Space
Metal content in early galaxies challenges star forming theory
May 10, 2016A galaxy observed in this study (surrounded by a blue rectangle). The light we received from...
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