Science news articles about 'stellar system'

... the spin axis of the other to wobble, or precess. Studies of other pulsars in binary systems had indicated that such wobbling occurred, but could not produce precise measurements of the amount of ...

... to mass outflow, with gas lifted from the surface of a circumstellar disk and then ejected from the stellar system. Until now, the origin of the gas emission from these young stars was still being ...

... do not know exactly what kinds of stellar system explode as a Type Ia supernova," ... element in the Universe. Such supernovae most likely arise in systems composed of two stars, one of them being the end ...

... fact that we still do not know exactly what kinds of stellar system explode as a Type Ia supernova," says Patrick Woudt, from the University of Cape Town and lead author of the ...

... with the dwarf galaxies and stellar streams associated with the Milky Way. The appearance of these stellar systems is closely linked to the substructure of the dark matter halo," Diemand said. The ...

... July 10 issue of the Astrophysical Journal discusses the theoretical properties of "hypercompact stellar systems" and suggests that hundreds of these faint star clusters might be detected at optical ...

The cluster of stars surrounding a supermassive black hole after it has been ejected from a galaxy are a new kind of astronomical object, according to a paper published in Astrophysical Journal. More ...

(PhysOrg.com) -- The Orion Nebula is one of the most beautiful sights of the winter night sky, its gas and dust glowing from the intense ultraviolet radiation of a cluster of massive young stars.