Wednesday, June 5, 2013

ScienceDaily: Stars News

ScienceDaily: Stars News


Saturn's metal-poor 'cousin' discovered with little telescope

Posted: 04 Jun 2013 12:35 PM PDT

Astronomers have discovered a hot Saturn-like planet in another solar system 700 light-years away.

Cosmic CSI team focuses on burned-out stars

Posted: 04 Jun 2013 12:33 PM PDT

Like a CSI unit, a team of astronomers at observatories worldwide has been digging around in the innards of dead stars, collecting evidence on how they died. The Whole Earth Telescope is shedding new light on the inner workings of stars.

Hubble maps 3-D structure of ejected material around erupting star

Posted: 04 Jun 2013 09:15 AM PDT

A flash of light from a stellar outburst has provided a rare look at the 3-D structure of material ejected by an erupting nova. Astronomers used NASA's Hubble Space Telescope to observe the light emitted by the close double-star system T Pyxidis, or T Pyx, a recurring nova, during its latest outburst in April 2011.

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