Astronomers discover ‘most prolific star factory in the Universe,’ churning out 3000 Suns
By Max Sonnenberg | The Space Reporter A group of astronomers has discovered the “most prolific star factory in the Universe.” The star factory is in a galaxy so far away that the astronomers see it as it was when the Universe was only six percent of its current age. According to a news release from the [...]
Read More →Betelgeuse braces for a collision
ESA Multiple arcs are revealed around Betelgeuse, the nearest red supergiant star to Earth, in this new image from ESA’s Herschel space observatory. The star and its arc-shaped shields could collide with an intriguing dusty ‘wall’ in 5000 years. Betelgeuse rides on the shoulder of the constellation Orion the Hunter. It can easily be seen [...]
Read More →Wide binary stars wreak havoc in planetary systems
By Jamie Williamson | TopNews Planetary systems with very distant binary stars are particularly susceptible to violent disruptions, more so than if they had stellar companions with tighter orbits around them, astrophysicists have found. Unlike the Sun, many stars are members of binary star systems – where two stars orbit one another – and these stars’ planetary [...]
Read More →Magnetic fields created before the first stars
Nanowerk Magnets have practically become everyday objects. Earlier on, however, the universe consisted only of nonmagnetic elements and particles. Just how the magnetic forces came into existence has been researched by Prof. Dr. Reinhard Schlickeiser at the Institute of Theoretical Physics of the Ruhr-Universität Bochum. In the journal Physical Review Letters (“Cosmic Magnetization: From Spontaneously [...]
Read More →Nearby star is good candidate for Earth-like planets
Space Daily Tau Ceti, one of our closest stars, is a good candidate for hosting an Earth-like planet, astronomers reported on Wednesday. Located a relatively close 12 light years away, the Sun-like star has five planets that orbit it in a balmy zone which gives the best chance for nurturing life, they said. One of [...]
Read More →Massive Black Hole May Exist Near Earth
By Belinda McCallum | The Epoch Times The strange behavior of stars in the Sword of Orion may be due to the presence of a black hole with a mass about 200 times larger than our sun. Using computer modeling, an international team of astronomers studied these fast-moving stars that form the Orion Nebula Cluster. [...]
Read More →Milky Way’s 84 million stars catalogued
IANS | NewKerala Astronomers have created a catalogue of more than 84 million stars in the central parts of the Milky Way, with a staggering nine-gigapixel image from the VISTA infrared survey telescope at the European Space Organisation observatory. This gigantic dataset contains stars 10 times more than previous studies and is a major step [...]
Read More →Star Found Zooming Around Milky Way’s Black Hole
By Belinda McCallum | The Epoch Times A star discovered orbiting the black hole at our galaxy’s center could help test whether Albert Einstein’s theory of general relativity is valid near a black hole. Known as S0-102, the star spins around the black hole every 11.5 years. Previously, only a brighter star called S0-2 was [...]
Read More →Strongest Magnetic Field Ever Found Around A Massive Star In Constellation Perseus
MessageToEagle An international group of astronomers reports the discovery of the strongest magnetic field ever found around a massive star.The star’s magnetic field is 20,000 times stronger than the Sun’s, and almost 10 times stronger than that detected around any other high-mass star. At about 35 times the Sun’s mass, the O-type star NGC 1624-2 [...]
Read More →Kepler Space Telescope Discovers Tatooine-Like Twin Star/Twin Planet System
Slate Star Wars fans rejoice, a Tatooine-like planet has been discovered. NASA’s Kepler space telescope has discovered a binary—or a planet revolving around a pair of stars —nearly 5,000 light years away. Tatooine, the iconic home planet of Luke and Anakin Skywalker in the Star Wars series, is also binary revolving around two stars, Tatoo I [...]
Read More →The Oldest Star in the Universe? “Closest Ever to Big Bang in Composition”
DailyGalaxy When Lorenzo Monaco of the European Southern Observatory in Chile and colleagues examined the elemental composition of an oddball star, prosaically named SDSS J102915+172927, they discovered that it has a mass smaller than that of the Sun, and is probably more than 13 billion years old. “This star has the composition that is the [...]
Read More →The Most Luminous Stars Prefer Company
By Belinda McCallum | The Epoch Times Almost three-quarters of the hottest, brightest stars or O-type stars in our universe have a companion star, according to new data from the European Southern Observatory’s (ESO) Very Large Telescope (VLT). This figure is much higher than previously realized. Most of these pairs or binaries also experience disruptive [...]
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