Thursday, January 8, 2015

ScienceDaily: Stars News

ScienceDaily: Stars News


Observatories take an unprecedented look into superstar Eta Carinae

Posted: 07 Jan 2015 01:23 PM PST

New findings include Hubble Space Telescope images that show decade-old shells of ionized gas racing away from the Superstar Eta Carinae at a million miles an hour, and new 3-D models that reveal never-before-seen features of the stars' interactions.

Where did all the stars go? Dark cloud obscures hundreds of background stars

Posted: 07 Jan 2015 05:16 AM PST

Some of the stars appear to be missing in this intriguing new image. But the black gap in this glitteringly beautiful starfield is not really a gap, but rather a region of space clogged with gas and dust. This dark cloud is called LDN 483 -- for Lynds Dark Nebula 483. Such clouds are the birthplaces of future stars.

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