Science news articles about 'stellar system'Young stellar objects: The source of gas emission around Herbig Ae/Be stars
... 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 ... NASA satellite pins down timer in stellar ticking time bomb
... a supernova. The neutron star belongs to a binary system that can be described as a ticking time bomb. Hydrogen and ... identify similar behavior. The 4U 1636-53 system is located about 20,000 light-years ... "Fireworks" Expected From Strange Eclipsing Star System
Changes in the behavior of an odd binary star suggest a third party could crash the affair, creating a stellar light show that should be visible from Earth within decades.In unique stellar laboratory, Einstein's theory passes strict, new test
... .com/articles/2008/07/03/in.unique.stellar.laboratory.einsteins.theory.passes.strict.new. ... to pin down the geometry of the double-pulsar system and track changes in the orientation of the spin axis of ... Study shows clumps and streams of dark matter in inner regions of the Milky Way
... 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 ... Stellar still births
... astronomer Eduardo Delgado-Donate had the idea that brown dwarfs could be interpreted as stellar 'miscarriages': a system consisting of three embryonic stars disintegrates due to the mutual attraction ... Vast Stellar Nursery: Claret-colored Cloud With A Massive Heart
An image of the amazing intricacies of a vast stellar nursery, which goes by the name of Gum 29, is now available. In the center, a small cluster of stars -- called Westerlund 2 -- has been found to ... Youthful Star Sprouts Planets Early
A stellar prodigy has been spotted about 450 light-years away in a system called UX Tau A by NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope.The Antennae Galaxies move closer
... must be able to account for the observed features of the Antennae Galaxies, just as respectable stellar models must be able to match the observed properties of the Sun. Accurate models require the ... Common star draws swift attention with unprecedented flare
... space looking for Gamma-ray bursts coming from the edge of the universe. "The sheer magnitude of this stellar flare is unprecedented, and it was produced in our own celestial back yard by a star of ... Astronomers search for orphan stars using newly upgraded telescope
... , over the past few billion years. But because the stars are very faint in the blue, to measure the stellar colors the existing camera needed to be upgraded to be image a wider portion of the sky with ... The behemoth has a thick belt
... and the Sun - 120 AU!) to more than 250 stellar radii (or 30 000 AU!).
"Everything is huge about this system. The star itself is so big that it would fill almost all the space ... Watching a 'new star' make the Universe dusty
... and obtain invaluable information on the operating mode of stellar vampires, dense stars that suck material from ... star. Novae occur in double star systems comprising a white dwarf - the end product of ... 'Naked-eye' gamma-ray burst was aimed squarely at Earth
... around the globe show a jet from a powerful stellar explosion witnessed March 19 was aimed ... captured the burst's first visible light. The system is operated by institutions from Poland.
Within the next ... Immigrant Sun: Our star could be far from where it started in Milky Way
... , the sun's neighborhood has become a more diverse and interesting place, the researcher said.
Such stellar migration appears to depend on the galaxy having spiral arms that twist their way through ...
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Young stellar objects: The source of gas emission around Herbig Ae/Be stars
... 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 ...NASA satellite pins down timer in stellar ticking time bomb
... a supernova. The neutron star belongs to a binary system that can be described as a ticking time bomb. Hydrogen and ... identify similar behavior. The 4U 1636-53 system is located about 20,000 light-years ..."Fireworks" Expected From Strange Eclipsing Star System
Changes in the behavior of an odd binary star suggest a third party could crash the affair, creating a stellar light show that should be visible from Earth within decades.In unique stellar laboratory, Einstein's theory passes strict, new test
... .com/articles/2008/07/03/in.unique.stellar.laboratory.einsteins.theory.passes.strict.new. ... to pin down the geometry of the double-pulsar system and track changes in the orientation of the spin axis of ...Study shows clumps and streams of dark matter in inner regions of the Milky Way
... 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 ...Stellar still births
... astronomer Eduardo Delgado-Donate had the idea that brown dwarfs could be interpreted as stellar 'miscarriages': a system consisting of three embryonic stars disintegrates due to the mutual attraction ...Vast Stellar Nursery: Claret-colored Cloud With A Massive Heart
An image of the amazing intricacies of a vast stellar nursery, which goes by the name of Gum 29, is now available. In the center, a small cluster of stars -- called Westerlund 2 -- has been found to ...Youthful Star Sprouts Planets Early
A stellar prodigy has been spotted about 450 light-years away in a system called UX Tau A by NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope.The Antennae Galaxies move closer
... must be able to account for the observed features of the Antennae Galaxies, just as respectable stellar models must be able to match the observed properties of the Sun. Accurate models require the ...Common star draws swift attention with unprecedented flare
... space looking for Gamma-ray bursts coming from the edge of the universe. "The sheer magnitude of this stellar flare is unprecedented, and it was produced in our own celestial back yard by a star of ...Astronomers search for orphan stars using newly upgraded telescope
... , over the past few billion years. But because the stars are very faint in the blue, to measure the stellar colors the existing camera needed to be upgraded to be image a wider portion of the sky with ...The behemoth has a thick belt
... and the Sun - 120 AU!) to more than 250 stellar radii (or 30 000 AU!). "Everything is huge about this system. The star itself is so big that it would fill almost all the space ...Watching a 'new star' make the Universe dusty
... and obtain invaluable information on the operating mode of stellar vampires, dense stars that suck material from ... star. Novae occur in double star systems comprising a white dwarf - the end product of ...'Naked-eye' gamma-ray burst was aimed squarely at Earth
... around the globe show a jet from a powerful stellar explosion witnessed March 19 was aimed ... captured the burst's first visible light. The system is operated by institutions from Poland. Within the next ...Immigrant Sun: Our star could be far from where it started in Milky Way
... , the sun's neighborhood has become a more diverse and interesting place, the researcher said. Such stellar migration appears to depend on the galaxy having spiral arms that twist their way through ...