Wednesday, March 19, 2014

ScienceDaily: Stars News

ScienceDaily: Stars News


New view of supernova death throes in 3-D

Posted: 18 Mar 2014 08:36 AM PDT

A powerful, new three-dimensional model provides fresh insight into the turbulent death throes of supernovas, whose final explosions outshine entire galaxies and populate the universe with elements that make life on Earth possible. It shows how the turbulent mixing of elements inside stars causes them to expand, contract, and spit out matter before they finally detonate.

Hubble revisits the Monkey Head Nebula

Posted: 18 Mar 2014 06:40 AM PDT

To celebrate its 24th year in orbit, the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope has released a beautiful new image of part of NGC 2174, also known as the Monkey Head Nebula. This colorful region is filled with young stars embedded within bright wisps of cosmic gas and dust.

Astronomers complete cosmic dust census

Posted: 18 Mar 2014 06:32 AM PDT

Astronomers have completed a benchmark study of more than 300 galaxies, producing the largest census of dust in the local Universe, the Herschel Reference Survey. Astronomers observed galaxies at far-infrared and sub-millimeter wavelengths and captured the light directly emitted by dust grains.

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