... Iowa State University astronomers advance their star studies. Massimo Marengo, an assistant professor ... professor of physics and astronomy, is using Spitzer data to study star-forming regions of our Milky Way ...
... as star formation inside galaxies, meaning that the intergalactic medium can be a used as a simpler, more accessible laboratory for the study of stellar evolution ...
Astronomers have shown that debris formed when two galaxies collide makes a simpler, more accessible laboratory for studying the process of star formation.
... they learned from groundbreaking research on treating depression and are applying it to real-world clinical settings. The study, STAR*D, provided evidence for step ...
... Carinae, the galaxy's biggest, brightest and perhaps most studied star after the sun, has been keeping a secret: Its giant ... supernova will look vastly different from one that results from a star that sloughs off all its hydrogen before exploding ...
... professor of physics and astronomy, is part of a research team that will use the mission's space telescope to study the interiors of stars ...
... discovered and documented only by accident in 1989 when a researcher studying stars was calibrating a camera pointed at the distant ... 's research team is one of the leading global groups studying the phenomenon. But Prof. Price and his students ...
... around the world. "Our study provides compelling evidence that a large fraction of star formation in the universe ... of astronomy at UC Berkeley and senior author of the study. Star formation occurs in dense clouds ...
... , and his "Sun-in-Time" project team have studied stars that are analogues of the Sun at both early ... System, as well as in planetary systems around other stars. These studies could lead to profound insights into the origin ...
... sextuplet the second-nearest such system known. The discovery is especially surprising because Alcor is one of the most studied stars in the sky. "Finding that Alcor had a stellar ...
NASA's next great observatory, the James Webb Space Telescope, is designed to study stars and galaxies. Astronomers are beginning to realize, however, that Webb will make a great planet hunter too.
NASA's next great observatory, the James Webb Space Telescope, is designed to study stars and galaxies. Astronomers are beginning to realize, however, that Webb will make a great planet hunter too.
... it essential to examining the early phases of star and galaxy formation, and studying the shapes and colors of distant ... also includes features that will make it a wonderful tool for studying star formation in the Milky Way Galaxy ...
... most of the Galaxy's stars and gas, and is surrounded by a "halo" of gas more distant than the clouds the astronomers studied. "These clouds ... as supernovae, blasting material outward. In the other region they studied, star formation activity is more sparse. "The properties ...
... clusters of galaxies are still actively forming stars, U.S. astronomers say. Galaxy groups and clusters ...
