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1. Stunning New Image of Wolf-Rayet Star and the Carina Nebula

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   The Carina Nebula around the Wolf–Rayet star WR 22. Credit: ESO Massive stars live fast and die young. But they are also beautiful. This amazingly spectacular new image from ESO shows the brilliant ... Wednesday, 28 July 2010

2. Dreamy, Young Stars

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   The Orion Nebula is a 'happening' place where stars are born and this colony of hot, young stars is stirring up the cosmic scene in this image from NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope. The young stars dip and ... Sunday, 25 July 2010

3. Most Massive Star Discovered: Over 300 Suns at Birth!

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   ... (464 words) © nick for Universe Today, 2010. | Permalink | No comment | Add to del.icio.us Post tags: Massive stars Feed enhanced by Better Feed from Ozh  ... Thursday, 22 July 2010

4. Weekend SkyWatcher's Forecast: July 16-19, 2010

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   ... are a couple of great stars that are worth observing… and learning about! Whenever you're ready, I'll see you in the backyard…. (...) Read the rest of Weekend SkyWatcher's ... Friday, 16 July 2010

5. Big or Small, All Stars Form the Same Way

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   ... massive stars form? This has been one of the more hotly debated questions in astronomy. Do big stars form by accretion like low-mass stars or do they form through the merging of low mass protostars? ... Wednesday, 14 July 2010

6. Pluto Goes into the Dark

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   ... the event. The dark patch is actually Barnard 92, a dark nebula. Since Pluto is usually very hard to see among the background of stars, it stands out against this dark nebula which blocks out the background ... Wednesday, 14 July 2010

7. In the Constellation Cassiopeia

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   ... star-forming nebula of dust and gas, called S175. This cloud of material is about 3,500 light-years away and 35 light-years across. It is heated by radiation from the young, hot stars within it, and the ... Tuesday, 13 July 2010

8. Hubble, Bubble, Toil and Star Formation

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   ... cauldron of an exotic cosmic brew. It billows with huge clouds of gas and dust and is sprinkled with Eye of Newt, um…er, bright blue hot young stars. These dust clouds in NGC 2467 look like a murky, ... Tuesday, 13 July 2010

9. Searching for the Elusive Type Ia Supernovae Progenitors

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   Astronomers have Type Ia supernovae pretty well figured out. The way these exploding stars brighten and then dim are so predictable that they have been used to measure the universe's expansion.  ... Monday, 12 July 2010

10. Celestial Fireworks

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    Like an Independence Day fireworks display, a young, glittering collection of stars looks like an aerial burst. The cluster is surrounded by clouds of interstellar gas and dust -- the raw material for ... Monday, 05 July 2010

11. Astronomy Without A Telescope – Animal Astronomy

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    ... Polaris with Betelgeuse again to their left, albeit this time in the 'west'. The position of Betelgeuse appeared to be significant, perhaps because it's one of the brighter stars in the ... Saturday, 03 July 2010

12. Weekend SkyWatcher's Forecast: July 2-4, 2010

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    Greetings, fellow SkyWatchers! Hopefully the rains have passed in your area and you're ready for some dark skies and a double-dip… Double stars that is! This weekend we'll take a look ... Friday, 02 July 2010

13. Finding the Origin of Milky Way's Ancient Stars

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    ... Society Many of the Milky Way’s ancient stars are remnants of other smaller galaxies torn apart by violent galactic collisions around five billion years ago, according to researchers at Durham University, ... Tuesday, 29 June 2010

14. Astronomy Without A Telescope – Stellar Archaeology

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    Artist's impression of Population 3 stars born over 13 billion years ago - the earliest, oldest and presumably now long extinct star types. Credit: NASA. Although, as we look further and deeper into ... Saturday, 26 June 2010

15. Weekend SkyWatcher's Forecast: June 25-27, 2010

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    Greetings, fellow SkyWatchers! If we can keep the clouds and rain away, this will be an incredible weekend to enjoy some peaceful and relaxing time under the Moon and stars. We'll begin with a heads ... Friday, 25 June 2010

16. Cosmologists Provide Closest Measure of Elusive Neutrino

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    Slices through the SDSS 3-dimensional map of the distribution of galaxies. Earth is at the center, and each point represents a galaxy, typically containing about 100 billion stars. Galaxies are colored ... Wednesday, 23 June 2010

17. Astronomers Watch Superstorm Raging on Distant Exoplanet

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    ... (VLT) to observe HD209458b, one of the most-studied planets orbiting around other stars. But Snellen told Universe Today that being able to detect this superstorm is extremely exciting and bodes well ... Wednesday, 23 June 2010

18. A Matter of Perspective

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    ... whole sky -- from asteroids to stars to powerful, distant galaxies. Image Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/UCLA ... Tuesday, 22 June 2010

19. Hubble Captures Beautiful Baby Stars

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    ...  The billowing pink clouds that look like cotton candy and bright bubbles of glowing gasses and are telltale signs that stars are being created. Click the image for a larger, hi-res version. Beans, bubbles ... Tuesday, 22 June 2010

20. Occulation Reveals Distant Kuiper Belt Object is Surprisingly Icy Bright

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    ... Elliot said in an article in BBC. "With an accurate orbit, we just projected where it was going to be in the sky and looked for stars that it might occult." The KBO occulted, or passed in front ... Friday, 18 June 2010