<p style="text-align:center"></p> <p> Using ESA’s Herschel space observatory, astronomers have discovered that a molecule vital for creating water exists in the burning embers of dying Sun-like stars.</p> <p>When low- to middleweight stars
<p style="text-align: center;"></p> <p>Supernovas are often thought of as the tremendous explosions that mark the ends of massive stars’ lives. While this is true, not all supernovas occur in this fashion.
AAVSO Alert Notice 499<br /> Predicted occultation of Regulus<br /> March 15, 2014 <p>On 2014 March 20 at approximately 02:06 a.m. EDT (06:06 UT), an occultation of Regulus (alf Leo, magnitude 1.4 V)
<p><a href="http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/spaceimages/images/mediumsize/PIA17847_ip.jpg" target="_blank"></a></p> <p>The closest supernova of its kind to be observed in the last few decades has sparked a global observing campaign involving legions of instruments on the ground and
<p style="text-align:center"><a href="http://hubblesite.org/newscenter/archive/releases/2014/13/image/a/format/web_print/" target="_blank"></a></p> <p>This is a Hubble Space Telescope composite image of a supernova explosion designated SN 2014J in the galaxy M82. At a distance of approximately 11.5 million light-years
<p style="text-align:center"></p> <p>Astronomers using NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope have found the building blocks of solid planets that are capable of having substantial amounts of water. This rocky debris, currently orbiting a
<p style="text-align:center"></p> <p>A spectacular Nova explosion in constellation Delphinus was discovered on August 14th – SLOOH covered it live yesterday to showing this amazing event as it happened in true color
<p style="text-align:center"></p> <p>NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope has provided the strongest evidence yet that short-duration gamma-ray bursts are triggered by the merger of two small, super-dense stellar objects, such as a pair
AAVSO Alert Notice 485<br /> AG Dra monitoring requested for multiwavelength campaign<br /> June 20, 2013 <p>Dr. Andrea Dupree (Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics), has requested AAVSO monitoring of the symbiotic variable AG Draconis
<p style="text-align:center"></p> <p>A flash of light from a stellar outburst has been used to probe for the first time the 3-D structure of material ejected by an erupting nova.</p> <p>Astronomers used NASA’s