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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

Ramadan to start Sept 1: Kuwaiti astronomer

The Islamic holy month of Ramadan will start September 1, according to a leading Kuwaiti astronomer. Mona Ahmed Anbar, director of astronomy and space sciences at the Kuwait Science Club, said in a statement that the solar eclipse that occ [...]

Posted On : Aug, 27 2008 | Comments : 0

Find out more about the star on your doorstep

Schoolchildren across the country have the chance to learn about the Sun and its effect on the Earth through a project led by a Cambridge academic. The Sun|trek project has been developed by a group of science teachers and university re [...]

Posted On : May, 06 2008 | Comments : 0

The First Type-Y Star?

Everyone who gets into astronomy soon learns the sequence of stars' spectral types. They run from blue to red, hot to cool: O B A F G K M. Soon after the first brown dwarfs were discovered in 1995, astronomers extended the red end with two [...]

Posted On : Apr, 12 2008 | Comments : 0

Stormy Cloud Of Star Birth Glows In New Spitzer Image

A dusty stellar nursery shines brightly in a new image from NASA’s Spitzer Space Telescope formally known as the Space Infrared Telescope Facility. Spitzer’s heat sensing “infrared Eyes” have pierced the veiled core [...]

Posted On : Mar, 03 2008 | Comments : 0

The Growing Up Of A Star

Using ESO’s very large telescope Interferometer, astronomers have probed the inner parts of the disc of material surrounding a young stellar object, witnessing how it gains its mass before becoming an adult. The astronomers had a clos [...]

Posted On : Feb, 04 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

Odd Little Star Has Magnetic Personality

A dwarf star with a surprisingly magnetic personality and a huge hot spot covering half its surface area is showing astronomers that life as a cool dwarf is not necessarily as simple and quiet as they once assumed. Simultaneous observ [...]

Posted On : Jan, 02 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 [...]

Posted On : Dec, 01 2007 | Comments : 0

Brown Dwarf Star Joins The Jet-Set

God Almighty has the power of doing what ever he desires an [...]

Posted On : Nov, 29 2007 | Comments : 0

Star shells found around quasar

What has appeared as a mild-mannered elliptical galaxy in previous studies is revealing its wild side in new images taken with NASA's Hubble Space Telescope. The Hubble photos show shells of stars around a bright quasar, known as MC2 1635+1 [...]

Posted On : Oct, 30 2007 | Comments : 0

Eavesdropping On The Universe:New Radio Facility Could Detec...

Previous SETI programs would not have detected an Earth-like civilization. The sear [...]

Posted On : Oct, 18 2007 | Comments : 0

Star cluster bursts into life

Thousands of sparkling young stars are nestled within the giant nebula NGC 3603. This stellar "jewel box" is one of the most massive young star clusters in the Milky Way GalaxyNGC 3603 is a prominent star-forming region in the Car [...]