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Stellar mosh pit, complete with crashing stars, resolves a m...

For almost 50 years, astronomers have puzzled over the youthful appearance of stars known as blue stragglers. Blue stragglers are the timeworn Hollywood starlets of the cosmos: They shine brightly, they are older than they appear, and the [...]

Posted On : Dec, 26 2009 | Comments : 0

New NASA telescope will allow astronomers to see previously ...

In what could reshape our view of the universe, the $320m (£195m) sky-mapping spacecraft, known as Wise, will photograph the entire night sky one and a half times in infra-red light. Despite billions of pounds of research and so [...]

Posted On : Dec, 14 2009 | Comments : 0

Learn about astronomy at STARS, deadline today

The University of Florida Astronomy presents Student Training in Astronomy Research Skills (STARS) from Nov. 13 through Nov. 14. STARS is a two day astronomy outreach program at UF, which is sponsored by NASA’s Space Telescope S [...]

Posted On : Oct, 27 2009 | Comments : 0

Columbia astronomers see stars no more

On astronomy’s birthday—the 400th year since Galileo first pointed a telescope at the night sky—Columbia astronomers can’t see the stars anymore. Due to construction of the Northwest Corner Building next to Pupin, th [...]

Posted On : Oct, 03 2009 | Comments : 0

Stars Over Alabama astronomy column May 31-June 6 Moon to co...

V ISIBLE PLANETS: Venus rises shortly before 4 a.m., trailing Mars slightly. Jupiter rises in the east about midnight, roughly the same time that Saturn is setting in the west. Mercury is still lost to view. THE MOON waxes almost to full b [...]

Posted On : Jun, 02 2009 | Comments : 0

The stars on show

It's 400 years since Galileo Galilei first gazed at the stars through an astronomical telescope. To celebrate this milestone and other innovations the science of astronomy has produced, this year is the International Year of Astronomy (IY [...]

Posted On : Mar, 20 2009 | Comments : 0

Astronomers starstruck over high-speed robotic telescope

Its job is to help detect the death of the first stars that formed after the Big Bang.It is a collaboration between the Institute for Astrophysics of Andalusia, Spain, and the universities of Auckland, Massey and Canterbury, as well as the [...]

Posted On : Mar, 02 2009 | Comments : 0

SPACE PHOTOS THIS WEEK: Hot, Young Stars and More

In this composite image, Chandra X-Ray Observatory data (blue) is combined with visible-light data from the Hubble Space Telescope (red and green) to reveal a divided neighborhood in the nearby M33 galaxy which houses some 200 huge, hot s [...]

Posted On : Jan, 28 2009 | Comments : 0

Astronomers try to solve mystery of bulging stars

Obesity has apparently reached galactic proportions, apparently — even stars have a problem with over-eating, a stellar mystery that has astronomers asking how some stars grow to be so large. A supercomputer scientist team may have th [...]

Posted On : Jan, 19 2009 | Comments : 0

Seeing Stars?

GUIDED BY A STAR-Star astrologer Jagjit Uppal, host of Bolen Taare, an astrological-readings television show that airs on Zee TV and author of several books on astrology, says: "I was keenly interested in mysticism. Spiritualism and a [...]

Posted On : Dec, 16 2008 | Comments : 0

The Financial Meltdown It Was In the Stars

One remarkable aspect of the current financial crisis that most of our relevant experts—mainstream economists, captains of finance, lawmakers, regulators, journalists (ha!), ratings agencies, and so on—seem to have had no clue w [...]

Posted On : Oct, 25 2008 | Comments : 0

Astronomy Club Aims for Stars

Abbey Kurtz, a second-year student majoring in psychology, co-founded the Astronomy Club last semester. The club, which just got off the ground at the beginning of this semester, brings together a variety of different aspects of astronomy f [...]

Posted On : Oct, 24 2008 | Comments : 0

Hubble Finds That 'Blue Blobs' In Space Are Orphaned Cluster...

Hubble has revealed that mysterious "blue blobs" in a structure called Arp’s Loop between M81 and M82 are blue clusters of stars less than 200 million years old with many stars as young as, and even younger than, 10 million [...]

Posted On : Jan, 09 2008 | Comments : 0

Cosmic Cannonball: One Of The Fastest Stars Ever Ever Seen C...

You surely have heard of fastest animal, human being in the world but never have heard of the fastest moving star which has now been discovered by NASA’S Chandra X-ray Observatory. And this cosmic cannon ball has challenged theories t [...]