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The ALMA telescope gives astronomers their first glimpse of a fascinating stage of star formation and helps resolve a mystery about how young planets and their infant star can both grow at the same time. 
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http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00zm833 Professor Brian Cox explains how the ingredients of life are created in the heart of a dying star.
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Some people reach for the stars, but the stars themselves seem to be reaching for the planets. Although Earth and its planetary neighbors were born with the sun, a new study says billions of stars in our galaxy likely grabbed planets from the depths of space. The finding may explain the puzzling presence of worlds located far from their suns and even suggests that our solar system could harbor a planet that lurks unseen well beyond Pluto.
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A 10 light-year-long strand of cosmic gas and dust - the building blocks of stars - found within the Taurus Molecular Cloud has been unobscured with the help of the APEX (Atacama Pathfinder Experiment) telescope.
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A documentary titled 'The City Dark' shows how the nighttime sky is vanishing fast, erased by round-the-clock artificial lighting...
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The center of just about every galaxy is thought to host a black hole, some with masses of thousands of millions of Suns and consequently strong gravitational pulls that disrupt material around them.
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Every star in the Milky Way is host to at least one planet, say astronomers reporting at the American Astronomical Society meeting.
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September 15, 2015 9:14 AM
Our solar system is not the only one with planets!
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Data from NASA's Kepler space telescope have revolutionized the search for planets outside the Solar System — and are now doing the same for asteroseismology.
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About 3,700 years ago, people on Earth would have seen a brand-new bright star in the sky. It slowly dimmed out of sight and was eventually forgotten, until modern astronomers later found its remains, called Puppis A.
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eso1148 - Vampire Star Reveals its Secrets. Astronomers have obtained the best images ever of a star that has lost most of its material to a vampire companion.
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A survey of the oldest objects in the Universe has revealed a multitude of dwarf galaxies that are producing stars at a dizzying pace.
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ESO’s Very Large Telescope captured the first time-lapse movie of a rare shell ejected by a “vampire star.
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In this stunning picture of the giant galactic nebula NGC 3603, the crisp resolution of the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope captures various stages of the life cycle of stars in one single view.
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With all the wonderful observation imagery compiled by NASA's Gateway to Astronaut Photography of Earth, the stars can get left behind. Alex Rivest compiled the imagery against a London PM music soundtrack.
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By sending an infrared telescope to altitudes of 12,000 meters (40,000 feet) and higher, NASA and the German Aerospace Center (DLR) conduct astronomical research that would be impossible using telescopes based on Earth.
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Can astronauts see stars from space? Hell yeah!!! This video was taken by the crew of Expedition 30 on board the International Space Station. The sequence of...
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Our Milky Way galaxy is surrounded by some 200 compact groups of stars, containing up to a million stars each.
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The centers of most --if not all-- galaxies host a black hole, some with masses of thousands of millions of Suns and consequently strong gravitational pulls that disrupt material around them. They had been thought to hinder the birth of...
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Bubbles full of stars are now shedding light on how our sun and its siblings might have formed, scientists find.
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Star formation is studied by astronomers not only because it produces new stars and planetary systems.
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"Change, like sunshine, can be a friend or a foe, a blessing or a curse, a dawn or a dusk." -William Arthur Ward Few things are as essential to our world as we know it as the primary source of...
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An image of a stellar nursery about 450 light years away featured as NASA's Astronomy Picture of the Day on Dec. 8 reveals the beauty and violent story of Sh2-239, a region where stars are being born and ignite the cosmic dust with their new-found energy.
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(PhysOrg.com) -- An international team of astronomers led by PhD student Paul Beck from Leuven University in Belgium have managed to look deep inside some old stars and discovered that their cores spin at least ten times as fast as their surfaces.
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The world’s largest submillimeter camera—based on superconducting technology designed by the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST)—is now ready to scan the universe, including faint and faraway parts never seen before.
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The constellation Cygnus, now visible in the western sky as twilight deepens after sunset, hosts one of our galaxy's richest-known stellar construction zones.
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