Science news articles about 'first star'

  • Red giant star Betelgeuse is mysteriously shrinking

    ... giants near the ends of their lives." Betelgeuse was the first star ever to have its size measured, and even ... 430 light years to 640, which increased the star's diameter from about 3.7 to about 5.5 ...
  • Research sheds light on early star formation

    ... what was thought to be produced when the very massive first stars died. Very old Population ... observations and theory, because these really massive stars would have produced a different set of metal ...
  • First black holes kept to a strict diet, study shows

    ... cleared out most of the gas in their vicinity," Wise said. A fraction of these first stars didn't end their lives ... radiation is intense enough to shut off star formation nearby for tens and maybe even ...
  • First solid evidence for a rocky exoplanet

    ... planet eclipses a small fraction of the light of the star for a little over one hour by one part in 3000 [2 ... Given these findings, CoRoT-7 stands as the first star known to have a planetary system made ...
  • Stars Fueled by Dark Matter Could Hold Secrets to the Universe

    (PhysOrg.com) -- The first stars in the universe may have been very different from the stars we see today, yet ... nuclear fusion. In the early universe, dark stars would have emitted visible light like ...
  • Rapid star formation spotted in 'stellar nurseries' of infant galaxies

    ... infant galaxies enjoyed rapid growth spurts forming stars like our sun at a rate of up to 50 ... we expect that the Milky Way once looked like this as it formed its first stars. "In effect we are seeing ...
  • Hs and OHs in the spotlight

    ... Hydrogen molecules (H2) played an important role during the formation of the very first stars. The researcher investigated the contribution of the Raman association process to the formation of H2. ...
  • Dust and gas in the early universe

    ... but a state-of-the-art computer simulation now offers the most detailed picture yet of how these first stars in the universe came into existence, researchers say. These findings will be published by ...
  • Black holes lead galaxy growth, new research shows

    ... he said. "To understand how the Universe got to be the way it is today, we must understand how the first stars and galaxies were formed when the Universe was young. With the new observatories we'll ...
  • Astronomers discover new radio signal using large balloon

    ... the cosmos, preventing astronomers from observing heat from the first stars. The balloon-borne ARCADE instrument ... In 1931, American physicist Karl Jansky first detected radio static from our own Milky ...
  • Loud noise permeates cosmos, NASA says

    GREENBELT, Md., Jan. 8 (UPI) -- A mysterious extra-loud radio noise permeates the universe, preventing astronomers from observing heat from the first stars, U.S. scientists at NASA said.
  • Laser-sculpted optical devices for future giant telescopes

    ... of faint light from extrasolar planets in orbit around nearby stars and, at the other extreme, the detection of the first star-forming systems in the early universe. You need larger, more robust ...
  • Astronomy's bright future

    ... -terrestrial life among the myriad of extrasolar planets that are set to be discovered; and finding the first stars that formed after the Big Bang. Other challenges are political - including the need ...
  • Fog lifted on 'dark' gamma-ray bursts, mysterious counterparts to bursts with an afterglow

    ... estimates that "25 percent of the time, when massive stars form, they form in a dusty place," said UC ... events," Cenko said. "We don't, which indicates that the first stars formed at a less frenzied pace ...
  • Intense heat killed the Universe's would-be galaxies, researchers say

    ... for these potential galaxies to survive the extreme heat generated by the first stars and black holes. "The heat evaporated gas from the small dark matter clumps, rendering them barren. ...

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